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I have been trying to get rid of (or greatly eliminate) my spammer problem…have installed these plugins:
Buddypress Humanity
Really Simple Captcha
Si Captcha Anti-Spam
Stop Spammer Registrations

And I’m STILL getting spammers! I do currently have 2 fields on my registration form that are supposed to guard against spam…you can see it at http://www.mommychats.com I THINK I have them configured right…But I am still getting people joining that then message me with garbage like this:
“Hello
I saw your profile today and it was so good to me.u know that i am interested to be a friend first.i also believe that coming to you will be a probability of meeting that very love that has been lacking in my entire life. please i will like you to contact me direct to my e-mail address, (grceamslu@yahoo.com) i dont know the posebility of remaing in forum for long time,i will give you a full introduction of my self with my pictures ok. i will be waiting for your mail to my e-mail adsdress(grceamslu@yahoo.com) as you know
there is no age,race,colour n religion bar when it comes to true love,
cares Grace.”

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is the problem that these freaks that post this sort of stuff are actual PEOPLE, and not spambots? Is there ANY way to guard against this sort of things? Oh I’m SOOO frustrated! My members are getting this sort of message as well and I don’t want them to leave me in droves because of this!

Any tips? I cannot be the only one dealing with this! Sigh!

Tina

I would like to request a change that would allow me to create a plugin that expands on the extended profile fields.

Where:
Near the end of the save() function in /bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-classes.php

What:
Change the following line:
do_action_ref_array( 'xprofile_field_after_save', array( &$this ) );
to:
do_action_ref_array( 'xprofile_field_after_save', array( &$this, $field_id ) );

Alternatively, you could set $this->id = $field_id after an INSERT. That way the I can still access the ID field without needing to alter the behavior of the xprofile_field_after_save action.

This would allow me to write out a field in my custom table that references the newly saved profile field.

Thank you for your time and the great BuddyPress system!
Joseph

EDIT: For some reason I can’t reply to my topic (white screen so I am guessing there is a fatal error).

Thanks Paul, I will post there. A multiple insert is not an issue as this function only updates or inserts a single row. Here is the current code:

function save() {
global $wpdb, $bp;

$this->name			= apply_filters( 'xprofile_group_name_before_save',        $this->name,        $this->id );
$this->description	= apply_filters( 'xprofile_group_description_before_save', $this->description, $this->id );

do_action_ref_array( 'xprofile_group_before_save', array( &$this ) );

if ( $this->id )
$sql = $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE {$bp->profile->table_name_groups} SET name = %s, description = %s WHERE id = %d", $this->name, $this->description, $this->id );
else
$sql = $wpdb->prepare( "INSERT INTO {$bp->profile->table_name_groups} (name, description, can_delete) VALUES (%s, %s, 1)", $this->name, $this->description );

if ( is_wp_error( $wpdb->query( $sql ) ) )
return false;

do_action_ref_array( 'xprofile_group_after_save', array( &$this ) );

if ( $this->id )
return $this->id;
else
return $wpdb->insert_id;
}

Hey guys,
Right this could be a long shot but here goes…

I use the S2 Member plugin to limit access on my website and this changes the way that users sign up – It also has it’s own way of adding new information to the BP Profiles and allows the easy importation of a lot of users at once.

The problem this has posed is that I have a massive field called ‘Business Description’ that I would very much like to be included in the search function within buddypress but as it’s been created by s2Member it currently isn’t.

The information is stored in the wp_usermeta table within wordpress and each row has a user_id, a meta_key which for the values I want to be searchable is ‘wp_s2member_custom_fields’ and then the meta_value is stored in this format:

`a:7:{s:20:”business_description”;s:112:”HERE IS THE BUSINESS DESCRIPTION.”;s:12:”telephone_no”;s:13:”TELEPHONE NUMBER”;s:15:”company_website”;s:0:””;s:9:”address_1″;s:17:”ADDRESS 1″;s:9:”address_2″;s:16:”ADDRESS 2″;s:9:”address_3″;s:9:”Sheffield”;s:8:”postcode”;s:6:”POST CODE”;}`

(I’ve copied this straight from database so the CAPITAL LETTERS are where I’ve omitted sensitive information.)

Right now does anybody now how I can modify the buddypress search function to include this data and provide a link to the correct users profile in the search results?

Many thanks in advance,
Laurie