Link Spammers in Comment box

[mrplough]

I've just had my first comment box spam - had to happen sooner or later. Didn't expect it one day in, especially as these boards are the only place that know about the site so far :(

They didn't stick html in there seeing it's disabled, all they did was make a comment, and afterwards list two of their URL's:


That's great. I love this site.

http://www.iamaspammer.com
http://spammers-suck.com


How can I disable the use of http:// in the comments area? Or prevent outbounds from there somehow? I don't want to be forever checking over people's comments for spam.

EDIT: I see there's protection in the editorial / submitted story text areas - must be a similar way to fix up the comments box.

[savant]

to actually post hyperlinks the <a> tag must be enabled.
Could i get a link to the site?

[mrplough]

Hi Savant, have sent you a PM example. They don't need to add a <a> in at all - all you do is type the URL in the comment box in the same way I can do it here in the forum here:

http://www.test.com

[savant]

got your pm.

here's a little fix for this now.

/libs/utils.php
in function save_text_to_html

comment out this line:
$string= text_to_html($string);

so it looks like
//$string= text_to_html($string);

[mrplough]

Works a treat savant - I owe you one :)