Bots, bots, bots

[Atomic Blaze]

According to my logic there are 4,228,250,625 possible IP combinations, chance that a bot and a real user might be sharing the same IP, 1/4.2 billion.

And the chance that they'd stumble across my forum and want to sign up: 1/600 billion, lol.

and the combined possibility is 1/2.52 trillion

[CueBurn]

Thanks MrMike, this mod looks great...  I've managed to install the first set of instructions but am a bit stumped with the second... When I try to register a test account is comes back with a template parse error.  I've got a feeling it's to do with the following code in the register.php file:

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////////////////////////////////////////
// Begin BOT-STOPPER 1.2 by MrMike
//
// Detect earlier registration attempts by a
// bot by matching names in the smf_failed_reg table

    $fakefield='';
    $fakephone='';
    $botmail='';
    $botname='';
    $remote_ip='';
    $regfailquery='';
    $regfailresult='';

if(isset($_POST['name'])){$fakefield = preg_replace("/[^0-9a-z]/i",'', $_POST['name']);}
if(isset($_POST['age'])){$fakefield = preg_replace("/[^0-9a-z]/i",'', $_POST['age']);}
if(isset($_POST['color'])){$fakefield = preg_replace("/[^0-9a-z]/i",'', $_POST['color']);}
if(isset($_POST['country'])){$fakefield = preg_replace("/[^0-9a-z]/i",'', $_POST['country']);}
if(isset($_POST['street'])){$fakefield = preg_replace("/[^0-9a-z]/i",'', $_POST['street']);}
if( isset($_POST['email']) ){$botmail = preg_replace("/[^0-9a-z@.]/i",'', $_POST['email']);}
if( isset($_POST['user']) ){$botname = preg_replace("/[^0-9a-z]/i",'', $_POST['user']);}

    ////////////////////////////////////////

Is there any chance someone could have a quick look through please and see if it's something obvious?  Would be really appreciated as all this spam is starting to send me mad!  Thanks in advance for the help, and again for such a great sounding mod 

[MrMike]

When I try to register a test account is comes back with a template parse error.  I've got a feeling it's to do with the following code in the register.php file

If you haven't modified the code, I'm fairly sure it's okay. It may be in the section where you added the hidden field.

Is there any chance someone could have a quick look through please and see if it's something obvious?  Would be really appreciated as all this spam is starting to send me mad!  Thanks in advance for the help, and again for such a great sounding mod 

You're welcome. But hang tight- I have something even better on the way that I'll announce later today or tomorrow.. Less code, virtually no file modifications, and no database changes.

[CueBurn]

I have something even better on the way that I'll announce later today or tomorrow.. Less code, virtually no file modifications, and no database changes.

Top man!!  Looking forward to it mate - cheers again!