Prevent x-cart review spam!

X-Cart product reviews are frequently used by spammers to post junk to your product reviews.  We unquestionably recommend adding an X-Cart Review Approval mod to prevent open posting to your website, however declining large amounts of spam still becomes an x-cart administration burden.

The following code change in your x-cart will restrict the posting of urls in your product reviews, and in our case has limited the spam we receive from 50 a week to 0.

OPEN vote.php

FIND:

 } elseif ($result) {
  $review_store_place = false;
  func_header_location("/error_message.php?error_review_exists");

AFTER ADD:

 // WCM - Spam Check - Disallow Urls
 } elseif (substr_count($review_message, "https:") > 0 OR substr_count($review_message, "http:") > 0 OR substr_count($review_message, "href=") > 0) {
  $top_message["content"] = "Your comments could not be added because the ability to post website urls has been disabled. Please make the necessary changes below.";
  $top_message["type"] = "E";
  $review_store_place['author'] = $review_author;
  $review_store_place['message'] = $review_message;
  $review_store_place['error'] = true;
 // / WCM - Spam Check - Disallow Urls