Comments on: RIP : Spam Comments [ 2003?- November 20, 2008 ]

By: James

James — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:11:02 +0000

Nice work, I am about to start delving into your code! '

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:18:39 +0000

@Taking it for a spin,

I'm going to make the code available soon and write about it on HackWordpress.com. So you'll be free to use it if you wish.

Originally the sounds were enabled by default. But I got nothing but grief for it. :)

By: Taking it for a spin

Taking it for a spin — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:03:30 +0000

Very nice! I've often thought about doing the same thing. Sounds are... not fun when you've got headphones plugged in and the volume turned up...

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:13:57 +0000

@Allen, Not sure what you mean by turning off the bg of the RTE. Do you mean that you were doing that in Flex Builder?

Thanks for the suggestion about the WP Codex. I want to make this compatible with Wordpress 2.7 and then I'll submit it.

By: Allen S.

Allen S. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:35:48 +0000

Wow, very nice Dan. Hey I tried turning off the alpha on RTE bg and it didnt work.

You should put this in in the WP Codex. Im sure it will get great acceptance.

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:11:26 +0000

@Patrick, I believe the date issue is solved. I'm using the same server side scripts that create the date - local and UTC - for the original comment submissions and passing those values to this comment tool via Flash vars.

I'll be the first to admit that UTC and date stuff confuses the hell out of me. :) It doesn't help that in php the date months are 1-12 and in Actionscript they are 0-11. I'm pretty sure someone is trying to mess with me. It's a conspiracy. I know it is. :)

Now the only thing left for me to fix is the comment count. The comment count here is almost correct. But in my next post about Magpie it says there are no comments but there are quite a few. I'm not really going to worry about it right now. Wordpress 2.7 is going to be released soon and will have a new comment API. I'll look into adapting this tool to work there and hopefully get the comment count to work again.

By: Patrick Welfringer

Patrick Welfringer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:46:27 +0000

Did you find a workaround for your date issues?

If not, why not do it in a simpler way: just use the current server date at submission time in your PHP!

Although I'm a frontend developer, I am still convinced that backend logic is more secure - so if the same data (postID, currentTime, IP) is available on the server, then just use that.

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:05:56 +0000

@patrick, I poked around I think the IP is there to help Wordpress sort out if a comment is valid or coming from a spamBot. Since I'm bypassing all the stuff I don't need the IP.

Now I just need to get the date/dateGMT issue sorted out.

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:51:59 +0000

@Patrick, I swear I changed the minor version yesterday. Must not have saved it. Thanks again for your help.

By: Patrick Welfringer

Patrick Welfringer — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:29:18 +0000

I confirm that Flash Player 9.0.16 fails to initialize your Flex 3 form.

The fix is easy: ask SWF Object to require FP9.0.28 or later :)

cf.: http://icanhaz.com/Flex3FP916