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#505 2025-12-31 21:04:41
Re: com_connect - form and contact mailer
Bloke wrote #342049:
It should be, as long as you have the latest com_connect.
Thank you, this really helped. I had found only the 4.90 beta before. Steph, thank you loads for your work! Where can i find the donation link?
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#506 2025-12-31 21:35:43
Re: com_connect - form and contact mailer
jayrope wrote #342050:
Where can i find the donation link?
Here’s the link to the dev team donations. Thank you so much in advance. And happy new year.
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#507 Yesterday 15:53:13
Re: com_connect - form and contact mailer
Happy New Year everyone!
From the plugins list in the backend pap_comconnect 1.2 links to https://forum.textpattern.io/viewtopic.php?pid=312784#p312784 – a non-existing link, it should be https://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?pid=312784#p312784 at the least.
Just FYI.
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#508 Yesterday 16:09:59
Re: com_connect - form and contact mailer
@jayrope. ext_com_connect_verify is another mini plugin that you can use to flag ban words patterns. You can customise the comcon_spam_patterns form to block the spam you often get. It usually looks pretty ugly, e.g. (‘ve removed the really offensive words from this)
/[Ff]ore[Mm]edia/
/(Per|Pay)[-\s]Per[-\s]Click/
/(Google|Bing|Facebook)\sAds?/
/[Aa]pp\s[Dd]eveloper/
/(SEO|seo)\s[Ss]pecialist/
/social[-\s]media marketing/
/shopping carts?/
/truly amazing/
/free consultation/
/invermectin/
/[Vv]ideo [Gg]ames/
/[Ww]eb\s?[Dd]esign(er)?/
/[Ww]eb\s?[Dd]evelop(er|ment)/
/Word[Pp]ress/
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#509 Yesterday 16:13:02
Re: com_connect - form and contact mailer
And there’s another even more effective method which swaps out the form action after a time delay, causing automated bots which fill out forms quickly to land in nirvana while allowing regular (slower) people to submit the form.
Use the delay attribute to specify the number of seconds before it switches the form action and the action attribute to specify an alternative (e.g. throwaway) action target, followed by the real one. If it’s the same page as the form, just end the attribute with a comma. Both go in the initial txp:com_connect tag, for example:
delay="5-15" action="https://binit.domain.com/,"I found that to be most effective so far.
It’s documented here.
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#510 Yesterday 16:25:55
Re: com_connect - form and contact mailer
jakob wrote #342060:
jayrope. "ext_com_connect_verify":./viewtopic.php?pid=306402#p306402 is another mini plugin that you can use to flag ban words patterns. You can customise thecomcon_spam_patterns@ form to block the spam you often get. It usually looks pretty ugly, e.g. (‘ve removed the really offensive words from this)
/[Ff]ore[Mm]edia/...
Thank you, Jakob. I am not versed with patterns, or RegEx for that matter. I did see Bloke’s advice somewhere in this VERY long thread. I suppose it would make sense to combine that info into a help article of sorts, so that the same questions and remarks aren’t asked / made over and over again?
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#511 Yesterday 16:35:07
Re: com_connect - form and contact mailer
jayrope wrote #342062:
Thank you, Jakob. I am not versed with patterns, or RegEx for that matter…
Most of the above is very simple. IIRC a regular term on a blank line also works, so it doesn’t need to be a regex expression. If you wrap the expression with two equal characters, e.g. /…/ then the expression will be processed. The rules above are:
[abc] = one of the contained letters, e.g either a, b, or c
(one|two|three) = one of the contained terms, e.g. either "one", "two", or "three"
\s = One or more spaces, tabs, etc.
? = with or without the preceding item, e.g. \s? = zero or more spaces
(something)? = with or without the preceding group…and there are many more. regex101.com is a useful site and has a quick reference panel with more options.
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