ThWBoard and reCAPTCHA
At UO-BaB we still use ThWBoard as forum software. While bots seem not be able to spam it, probably because of the low distribution, we get a lot of bogus registrations. These generate a lot of undeliverable mails which choke our support mailbox.
I finally decided to do something against this and implemented a reCAPTCHA check on the registration page. I have made a patch for anyone who still uses ThWBoard.
- Create a reCAPTCHA account and download the PHP-API-wrapper.
- Unpack the archive into the inc folder in your forum directory.
- Download the patch from:
http://www.4geeks.de/files/thwboard_recaptcha.patch
- Apply the patch with “patch -p1 thwboard_recaptcha.patch”
- Change private and public reCAPTCHA key in register.php and do_register.php
- …
- Profit!