Banlist module + IPbanning plugin

Hello @ all,

This is the first module and the first plugin that I write for MODx

The module is a simple banlist feature, where you can manage a list of IPs and email addresses that you want to ban from using your webpage (or whatever else you want). The email banlist is so far just as is, I haven’t altered the WebSignup snippet but you can do it.
I’ve also wrote the plugin for preventing access to the homepage for visitors using a banned IP address.

Screenshots

How to install:

• Extract the archieve and make sure it has at least two PHP files.
• Create a new module called "Banlist" and add content of banlist.module.php file to it.
• Run module and click for installation. This will create two new database tables and a new field to the existing system settings table.
• Enable banning and start adding IP and email addresses.
• In case you do not have a custom unauthorized page, create a new one and activate it from the managers system configuration settings.
• Create a new plugin called "IPbanning" and add content of banip.plugin.php file to it, select the "OnWebPageInit" system event.
• The plugin will block access of visitor with banned IPs to the homepage, to also block access to the manager simply activate the "OnBeforeManagerLogin" and "OnManagerPageInit" system events. I suggest you do so!

I hope you’ll like it

Boby

Awesome! Great work!

Yeah this is another stone that will help us build MODx powered community websites, thanks !

Great work Boby! Looks very good, Thanks!

Thank you guys for the comments

I hope somebody might find it useful, specially those who run great websites and are targeted by spambots. You can ban an entire IP range.

Hope to find a nicer way to show the IP and email ban lists for a future version so you don’t have to scroll up and down through the whole page. Maybe add some tabs like almost all pages in the MODx manager, what do you think? Just need to figure out how MODx is doing it so I don’t need to write all the HTML/CSS stuff again.

Boby

Thanks Boby,

I installed your module on a localhost (127.0.0.1), for development purposes.
It looks promising and I would like to test it by banning some IP address.
I assume that banning the localhost 127.0.0.1 is not the best thing to do as I won’t be able to access MODx manager after that. I’ll most probably still be able to access the tables from phpMyAdmin but I don’t want to take that risk.

Does someone know a way to emulate external IP adresses from a web browser ?
My favorite ones are Opera and Firefox.

Thanks.

Hi there, I’m an newbie to ModX. I did what you told in install.txt.

But...

How do I ’run’ the module (I saved it) and where do I insert the IP’s???

thanks, coby

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Run module and install it.