A tool for phpbb forum administrators
Hi
10 months ago, I started hosting a friend’s phpbb forum. Of course, I’m the administrator of the technical side of the forum
6 months ago, in order to try to protect the forum from spammers’ assaults, I manually updated the bans list from the Stop Forum Spam website, which provides a SQL file for phpbb forums.
However, this is repetitive and annoying, and today I decided to automate this task. So a little script is born.
I also decided to publish it under a free software licence (the GNU GPL), maybe some other admins may use this script.
This program will not work on web-hosting which do not propose a remote shell access.
This is the 0.1 version of this program, for now he’s unable to connect to a remote MySQL server (this feature will be included in the 0.2 version)
Here are the links for download:
sfs_update-0.1.tar.bz2
sfs_update-0.1.tar.gz
The installation howto is written in the README file included in the archive.
If you have any idea, feel free to contact me using the contact form.
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