i'm using captcha to stop spam bots on my html forms - any way to add that to the ubb classic registration, that would really help with all the spam bot regs we're all getting these dayze!

It might be gone now but there was a hack here for classic at one time. But it was a simple question/answer captcha.
Like:
Question: how many days are in a week
answer: 7

the 'captcha' code is easy to add to any form within an html page, and works very well. i'm looking for a way to add this javascript to the ubb classic registration - just can't seem to find the right script ... ?????

http://www.captcha.cc/index.html?submit

I think that IF a feature got modded into classic, it'd probably be ReCaptcha

my question is *where* to add the code, what file generates the html registration script?

Well that was my point if you can find a old mod then it would have a clue on what file to edit.
Gizmo made a comment ReCaptcha so that might be it.
Since classic was a declared end of life there are not to many active people here that still use it.
So it is all from memory now.

Maybe Allen can dig something up from the archives he has saved.
BTW there is not a html page. Classic was cgi based. It did have a feature later on to add a html extension to the url.
But anyway a starting point would be ubb_registration.cgi.

yes, i know it's cgi that generates the html reg form, but ubb_registration.cgi doesn't do it, looks like it might be part of cp_registration_q.pl or cp_vars_registration.pl ... ?

hey allen!

To be honest it is probably all three that need to be modified.
When I have time I will look at some of my archives on mods.
If I find it I will probably need to scan it as a attachment.

In the meantime Allen is probably still the best resource if it can be found.
But most here will say upgrade to threads.

But to start the ball rolling what version of classic are you using?

i've already pm'd aa.

ubb classic ber 6.7.1

fwiw, these dayze anyone running ANY board needs a registration spam check.

Files prefixed with cp are Control Panel files; aka they aren't shown to users.

I haven't played with classic in quite a long while so I'm not too sure where to start offhand...

I believe classic should have a templates folder in the noncgi folder; that'd contain the "shown to browser" bits, then the cgi file would contain the "processing" bits; vars files are just for holding static variables, so that'd be where you'd put your recaptcha challange/response key's.