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How Akismet work?
When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your blog it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down.
Read Akismet site for more details

What does this plugin do?
This Joomla! component is UNUSABLE alone: other components HAVE TO USE IT. Consider this component as a Framework. It help other developers integrate Akismet in their code. This component is simply a bridge, hiding Akismet details and providing an unified way to use Akismet in Joomla 3rd party component code.

NEW: Slider administrator panel.
NEW: Native Joomla! 1.5 plugin, no need to install in legacy mode.

NEW: Checking now the validity of your Akismet key, see screenshot below


NEW: check for proper operations, test individually comments, see screenshot below


NEW: Fully translated, including manuals, help and troubleshootings

NEW: New API more like in Joomla! 1.5, but the old one is still working

require_once (_JOOMLA_AKISMET_ADMIN_BASE . '/akismetJoomlaAPI.php');
$JoomlaAkismetAPI = JoomlaAkismetAPI::getJoomlaAkismetAPI();
$JoomlaAkismetAPI->isKeyValid("123456789");


NEW: Using Akismet PHP 5 engine version 0.4 (author Alex Potsides http://www.achingbrain.net/)

• Performance - changed HTTP version from 1.1 to 1.0 (with thanks to Jan De Poorter).
• Performance - No longer issues a separate HTTP request to check validity of the API key with every instantiation.
• Added a new public method 'isKeyValid' to manually check validity of the API key passed to the constructor.
• The method 'isCommentSpam' (rather than the constructor) will now throw an exception if the API key is invalid.
• Tidied up internal structure a bit.

Askimet

What is bad  is that there is currently no Joomla! implementation for Askimet, until now! I will deliver shortly a new component, which act  one more time as a framework, and let 3rd party components integrate Askimet in their code. OpenComment will be the first Joomla! plugin to use that new possibility!

Askimet statistics:

• 543,878,439 spams caught so far
• 1,544,713 so far today
• 94% of all comments are spam

• Askimet PHP4:  author Alex Potsides (converted to PHP4 by Bret Kuhns) http://www.achingbrain.net 
• Askimet PHP5:  author Alex Potsides http://www.achingbrain.net/

How can I support Akismet?

You might consider buying a pro-blogger license for $5/mo. If you would like to participate in the development of the GPL Akismet WordPress plugin or discuss adapting the Akismet API for a different platform, join the Spam Stopper mailing list and introduce yourself and your ideas. The more the merrier. :)

Warranty
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
A GNU-GPL release

Download it in my download section.