CodeIgniter Akismet Library - Stop Spam Now!

[eluser]Elliot Haughin[/eluser]
Hey guys, I know many of you are using CodeIgniter to build blogs or similar projects. Well, I’ve been building Blaze this week, and for the new blog module, I ended up building an Akismet library for CodeIgniter!

It's pretty simple to use, and should help you guys stop spam comments on your CI powered applications.

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
Excellent addition Elliot! I love Akismet, it has currently stopped 14,700 spam comments on my blog since I first installed it (about a year ago).

I get about 250-300 spam comments a day now (yes, there is a downside to having a high Google PR). I've never found a false positive (although I don't really look hard, upon glances I don't find any) and very rarely does a spam comment make it through (although I delete a lot of trackbacks as spam - primarily foreign blogs that include some of my Wordpress plugins in lists of 100-200 at a time).

[eluser]Vince Stross[/eluser]
well done!

[eluser]Andre83[/eluser]
Very nice, Elliot, thankyou very much!

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
Awesome contribution, Thanks Elliot.

[eluser]elvix[/eluser]
As an aside, there was a bug in another popular version of an Akismet PHP class, where HTTP 1.1 connections were timing out. (This gave me a serious headache with another app I'm working on.)

Elliot's library uses the HTTP 1.0 protocol (a suggested fix for the above problem), which does not support persistent connections and should work flawlessly.

Pretty arcane, I know, but I thought I'd post it just in case anyone ever wondered.

Anyway, kudos Elliot!

[eluser]Elliot Haughin[/eluser]
Thanks for the feedback

Always appreciated.

[eluser]foxman149[/eluser]
Hi Guys Sorry to revive an old post but Could I use this check for a refer a friend email form?

Regards

Maurice