phpBB3 and ReCaptcha

Posted June 13th, 2009 in www by alex

Ok – so the 750formula site was getting the same adult spam which IMOC used to have to deal with – so out comes recaptcha again. This time, I’ll show how I did it. This was pretty quickly hacked in, so somebody with more knowledge of how to make proper mods for phpBB could do it ‘correctly’, but this works enough for me for now..

This was done with phpBB version 3.0.5 (the most recent version at the time of writing) Since the code modifications below give line number references, if you do it with a different version, things may be in *slightly* different places, YMMV etc..

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