… and then I pulled myself together and released phpCF 0.2 into the wild. You may be wondering why you never saw a 0.1 release, but that’s because it was never released. But tonight I gave it the final work-over, wrote some documentation for it and - thanks to Steffie - decided NOT to write a DB configuration backend for it anyway, so now it runs with a single, very simple configuration file. Way better than a big, clumsy and useless configuration in a database. (There are more reasons, but I won’t get into them now.)

In case you’re wondering what phpCF is, then you’ve chosen the right paragraph to read. phpCF is a PHP class designed for scanning of e.g. blog-comments to determine whether they’re spam or not. phpCF only does the checking, assigns a score and compares it to the configured threshold. What to do if it’s spam is up to the one implementing it. Apart from doing a simple job in a simple way it’s also simple to implement. Simple, simple, simple… SIMPLE! Look at this example…

Also, I created a Freshmeat entry for phpCF and I hope that the server can stand the extra traffic, when phpCF hits the Freshmeat front page. If not, let me know.