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Anti-Spam for Joomla Comment Component AkoComment |
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Written by Len Bai
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007 |
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Well, I am talking the spam again for weblog and CMS (content management systems). The first case I dealt with was the trackback spam on the serendipity weblog system. I've given a solution regarding that and hundreds of spams were killed.
Now it comes to Joomla. A couple of days ago, I noticed that there were a lot of comments appearing on my website. Obviously they were not manually left by real web users since firstly it's really 'A LOT' generated in a short period and secondly all comments were about a same bored topic. The backdoor was found in AkoComment, one of the most popular comment components for Joomla. AkoComment did have done a good job of preventing spams from my site for quite a long time. However, the spamming techniques have advanced faster so that eventually the security gate was broken and hundreds of comments flooded in.
I hate spamming! When I saw these disgusting comments, I felt totally uncomfortable from head to toe. So I decided to take actions to beat them. An easy way to go is to uninstall AkoComment therefore completely shut the gate. But I dont want to do this because I still need real comments from friends.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 28 August 2007 )
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Joomla Tips: Call-time Pass-by-reference Has Been Deprecated |
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Written by Len Bai
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
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If you meet the following message on your Joomla based website or any other sites built with PHP
"Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of [runtime function name](). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file."
Dont get panic. There are two simple solutions shown below
1. Turn allow_call_time_pass_reference On (if you have access to the php.ini file on your host)
2. Remove the '&' from the line usually indicated with the above warning message
Either 1 or 2 would sort out the problem. This problem is mainly caused by the latest PHP version 5.2.2 and doesn't appear in the previous PHP versions.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 22 June 2007 )
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