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Porting Guide

If you want to install Bad Behavior to a system other than those to which it has already been ported, you will almost certainly need some knowledge of PHP or some assistance by someone who does have such knowledge. These notes should get you in the right direction.

By default Bad Behavior can provide protection to any PHP script out of the box, but it cannot provide logging. If you are willing to live without Bad Behavior’s detailed logs, simply install the Bad Behavior folder somewhere on your server, and then call require_once("/path/to/Bad-Behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php"); from your PHP script. I recommend placing this function call in a common piece of PHP code which is loaded from all parts of your PHP-based software, so that it can provide protection to all parts of your software.

Please note that Bad Behavior relies on its database logging for some parts of its spam protection, and thus will run in a degraded mode when no logging is available.

If you just can’t live without logging, you will need to provide a database connection. Bad Behavior uses callbacks whenever it needs to run a database query; in order to provide this functionality, you will need to provide the appropriate hooks into your PHP-based software’s database and add them into the bad-behavior-generic.php file. The code has stub functions which show what is needed, and you can use the bad-behavior-wordpress.php file as an example to work from, though your implementation will necessarily be different.

17 thoughts on “Porting Guide”

        • J.Miller,

          It appears you have made changes to the Bad Behavior core code which make it unreliable and which will have a negative impact on users. Please revert the changes or name your mod by a different name other than Bad Behavior.

          • Appears? I have no reported issues. Have you tested your theory or are you just making assumptions?

            I am not happy that you did not email me any concerns.

          • I emailed you about this unreliable code on August 13, 2010. If you somehow missed the email (which I doubt, since you replied to it) then there’s also a comment in the disabled code warning about it as well.

  2. My records show a conversation on CloudFlare DNS checking where they had an error in their record where you said “I think you should report this one to CloudFlare. It looks like they missed setting a record on one (or more) of their addresses”.

    The CloudFlare code we discussed in August 13, has been disabled for a LONG LONG time in the port.

    The core section you added that bypassed Bad Behavior checking if CloudFlare is installed was disabled. If I did not users of CloudFlare in my port will never see a blocked bot. Making the port useless. I use it daily and it works.

    When was the last time you actually installed and looked at the SMF port? There were over 6,400 downloads. More users than most other BB ports. Users who have CloudFlare and users who do not report many blocked bots.

    Having an approved mod at SMF is no little thing. All code is scrutinized by SMF. They police their mods. Any user can report the mod as unsafe. If something does not work they take action.

    I see no email warning and am not happy with this thread. For now, I deleted the SMF port and placed the update on hold. I will revisit options when I have time next week.

    • That affects not only CloudFlare but all search engine requests. If you use the round trip code, and the host’s DNS resolver breaks, then search engine requests get blocked. This isn’t something most users will notice until several months later, if at all.

      • I do not use round trip code for Cloudflare!

        I am not going to waste any more time guessing. Email me specific information.

  3. Not sure if this is a real issue or a people are frustrated issue but I appreciate having bad behavior block a ton of trouble makers who target my SMF forum. I recently donated a small amount to this website. I hope you can clarify what the issue is and determine if it is a real issue or not. I know I don’t have the skills to do this type of thing myself so I have to rely on other people to do it.

  4. An email was never sent to me.

    I reviewed the mod, created a new version and asked Suki of the SMF Customization Team to provide a Peer Review of the latest version of the SMF “Bad Behavior mod”: Approx. 40 pages of my SMF code and Approx. 21 pages of core code.

    The first time they reviewed the mod they ignored your portion. This time they will review all code.

  5. Eagerly waiting for the porting guide! Out of curiosity, was this originally authored by Appelbaum (ioerror) himself?

  6. BTW, an option for either sqlite or flatfile storage would be fantastic, as not everybody has the resources to run a DBMS. I suspect that you will greatly increase your potential usership.

    Regards

  7. Just thought I should let you know that I’ve been working on porting Bad Behavior to ASP.NET. I’ve put the source code for where I’ve got to so far on Github at https://github.com/jammycakes/badbehavior.net.

    At the moment it’s at a fairly experimental/alpha stage of development, but I’m hoping to see it through to a stable release in due course.

    If you’ve anything in particular that you think I should be aware of, or any particular requirements, could you let me know please?

    Thanks

  8. Peer review complete and the mod passed.

    If anyone has any questions or issues please either PM me at SMF or post in the SMF support thread for the mod with any questions and/ or concerns.

    If someone likes my code please ask for permission before using it.

  9. Hoping I have found the right place, from what I see there are no installation instructions for the MyBB forum software. Are there any plans for this?

    Thanks.

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