Blocking Users

Can users be blocked from accessing a wapsite?

I've been reading around alot of sites and it seems yes you can block them.

How would I block them?

I've looked in so many places for an answer, but I can't find out how anyone does it. So can anyone guide me, I know mobiles have a unique id, and if I was to know this I could block the phone.

The site is coded in php.

It's depending on how you want to block them but yes it can be done.

If you have a control panel like cPanel or Helm you can do it through there to block IP addresses and so on. If you want to bar a certain handset then you can code the bits for that in your application based upon the agent the user is on.

Otherwise you need to tell us more on how you wish to block these people, what params do you want to bar them on?

Cheers

Andy

Thanks for replying.

IP blocking is a bit of an overkill, seeing as it will result in a whole group of people being blocked just because they share the same operator.

The problem I've got is very offensive bee-havior in a chat system I've set up, with no easy way to stop users that abuse the system.

then you could use some kind of php driven system that scores how offensive the post is then kills the mixture between ip address and user agent.

I have thought about something similar to this, the problem with it though is that it would have to have a huge error checking system, countless number of if else statements. It would also have to be able to handle text chat as well, and there are countless ways to say the same thing ("the bad word, the b@d word, the bad w0rd, b@d w0rd, 7he bad word etc..").

I know the bango service is able to work out users with out login ids, but this involves payments as well, so maybe they have a deal with the phone operators which gives them extra information.

Thanks again for reply, if you have any other ideas do let me know.

you could follow in the bango style and have users log in, then you can disable the logins if they foul the place up

I thought bango worked on more then just user logins, maybe that was a bad example to use in my previous post. I can disable accounts on my site at the moment, the problem is I have no way to stop them signing up again. Thanks again for replying.

I was thinking that maybe I could use a cookie to make a sort of soft block, do phones except them? If so do you know what happens when I try to create a cookie and they're phone doesn't allow them?

Some phones do cookies, some don't.

If you log the user_agent and IP of the people you are barring then you might be able to use that info to stop them signing up again but nothing is foolproof.

Cheers

Andy

Thats a good idea, I'm sure I can build something around that. Not foolproof but it's a start.

Thanks for all your comments.