Magento

Hello. I have a spam problem on my magento hack. Some guy from china is flooding my site with spam comments on my products. The comments must be validated by me on the backend so no problem, but i must filter them every single day , 100+ spams and 1 or 2 actual comments. So i tried a javascript validation for the comment form but that is easy to skip by using a simple firebug in your browser. So i went deeper in the magento code and found “ProductController.php” , the file that has the save() function for the comments.

What i want to do is make a validation there for the comment, just before the save function, but i don’t know how to get the comment buddy so i can filter any kind of spam from it.

Posibly a method is using captcha, but i run magento 1.5 and i think captcha will discourage customers from commenting even more.

If those spam messages leaves bots - try to use this free module http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/et-review-notify.html

Thank you for your sugestion. I will try that exstension but i still want to find a way to create a code that does the filtering. I had bad experience with some extensions and that’s why i try to personaly code as an alternative to them.