Hi, I am looking for an anti-spam solution for VM registration. Can anyone guide me a good one?
Alternately, does anyone know if Virtuemart triggers the onBeforeSave and onAfterSave events?
Thanks
J 2.5.19
VM 2.6.0
VM 2.6.0 now utilises Joomla Captcha for registration
Enable the Joomla Captca - ReCaptcha plugin
Get the key:
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#whyrecaptcha (https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#whyrecaptcha)
Then in VM Admin/Configuration
Enable Use "ReCaptcha for Registration"
Thanks for the support Hutson. That was done nice & easy. 2 more things though:
1. The "register & cancel" buttons show on the top of the form. Can they be brought below the captcha?
2. I have a feeling that spam registrations do not use the registration form and somehow byepass it because I have enabled email activation link to enable & activate the registration process; but the spam registrations mostly show that they are enabled & activated !!
Your suggestions on this shall be very helpful.
1. by changing your template with an over ride
2. seems unlikely - if you really do require activation (it will kill your shop - 50% will not know what to do - the rest won't find the email.. ;) )
and you have tested it working how good they possibly bypass a key core joomla process?
Hello GJC
Thanks for the reply to my query. I have disabled the activation. Will wait and see the fate of spam registrations with this !!
As for the "register & cancel" button, can you please guide me to the file I need to override?
Warm regards
Rajesh
what sort of spam regs are they? just idiots, people trying to leave spam links?
I run a lot of shops and don't find spammy registrations particually a problem with VM as there's too many fields and they are lazy
joomla spam registrations is another matter - plenty of those
to over ride the buttons do an over ride for components/com_virtuemart/views/user/tmpl/edit_address.php