Akismet is a remotely hosted spam-busting web service.
If you have a CodeIgniter application that accepts comments from users, Akismet can help you filter out the ’spam’ comments and keep the ‘real’ comments.
We can’t stand spam.
Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
To use the library, you’ll need to get an Akismet API Key
Download the library and put it in your application/libraries/ directory, then place code like this in your controller:
$this->load->library('akismet'); $comment = array( 'author' => $this->input->post('name'), 'email' => $this->input->post('email'), 'website' => $this->input->post('website'), 'body' => $this->input->post('comment') ); $config = array( 'blog_url' => 'http://www.yoursite.com/', 'api_key' => 'yourapikeyhere', 'comment' => $comment ); $this->akismet->init($config); if ( $this->akismet->errors_exist() ) { if ( $this->akismet->is_error('AKISMET_INVALID_KEY') ) { log_error('AKISMET :: Theres a problem with the api key'); } elseif ( $this->akismet->is_error('AKISMET_RESPONSE_FAILED') ) { log_error('AKISMET :: Looks like the servers not responding'); } elseif ( $this->akismet->is_error('AKISMET_SERVER_NOT_FOUND') ) { log_error('AKISMET :: Wheres the server gone?'); } // If the server is down, we have to post the comment :( $this->_post_comment($comment); $this->load->view('thankyou'); } else { if ( $this->akismet->is_spam() ) { $this->load->view('spam'); } else { $this->_post_comment($comment); $this->load->view('thankyou'); } }
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Version: 1.0
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I love this library. Just a quick question about this and typepad antispam though.
I want to use this with typepads antispam which i’ve been hearing good things about. Looking on Typepads site it says all you need to do is change one item and it will work with any plugin made for Akismet.
change: rest.akismet.com to api.antispam.typepad.com
You’ve done a great job with this by giving us var $akismet_server = ‘rest.akismet.com’;
Do you think that this is all i would need to change to get it working with typepad as there documentation isn’t great.
Cheers for all your hard work.
waww,,krenn,,thanks you,,
salam kenal,,,
I’ve just come across a little typo: line 159: $this->_get_querystring() should be $this->_get_query_string()
It seems to be working if you alter that, thanks for the script!
Pete
That’s true, Peter Hough. Needs to be revised, changed on my file
Thank you too!
Nice library.
There is one thing I don’t understand though: what is log_error()? Is it an old version of CodeIgniter’s log_message?
I probably misuderstand how the class works, but seeing how you use it, isn’t the comment submitted all the time since you post it at the end of the first if statement (unless log_error does a redirect or something similar, which brings me back to the first question, what is log_error?).
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I don’t know why but this doesn’t work for me. Is this old or something?