Re: [SMARTY-DEV] "nofollow" modifier to prevent comment spam

Hi, the nofollow-tag fights the symptoms of comment-spam, instead of fighting the source. the nofollow-tag also prevents good links from honest comments to be rewarded with being indexed and ranked by the search engines. i'd take this nofollow-thing with a grain of salt. greetings messju On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:33:30PM +0100, Arjan Scherpenisse wrote: > Hi list, > > I have created a tiny plugin which adds a rel="nofollow" attribute to > all <a> tags, to prevent comment spam on web logs [1]. > Although fairly trivial, I think this would be a nice addition to > smarty, to broaden the support for this kind of tag. > > One minor caveat: the regular expression currently does not check > whether the <a> tag really is a link (e.g. if the href attribute is > set), so <a name="xx"> also get a nofollow attribute. Maybe someone with > more regex skills could help me out here. > > The source file is attached. > > Regards, > Arjan Scherpenisse > > [1] > http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html > -- > > > > > > *EYEFI.INTERACTIVE.ARJAN SCHERPENISSE. > DIGITALARCHITECTS.THENETHERLANDS.* > KEIZERSGRACHT 424. 1016 GC. AMSTERDAM. > [TEL]+31(0)20,3207440. [FAX]+31(0)20,3207442. > > www.eyefi.nl <http://www.eyefi.nl/> > > ...... > The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged > material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message please > do not read, copy, use or disclose this communication and notify the > sender immediately. It should be noted that any review, retransmission, > dissemination or other use of, or taking action in reliance upon, this > information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is > prohibited. ©2004.EYEFI . INTERACTIVE. > ..... > > > -- > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php