I have downloaded an akismet plugin from your site which is stated as being compatible with ZenPhoto 1.2.x (I have 1.2.5 installed), however upon activation I am not presented with any evidence that the plugin is running, such as a place to enter my API key or a tick box/drop down to activate it on the comments configuration.

Is anyone using Akismet with ZenPhoto 1.2.5 and if so how did they get it running? I am using Akismet on my WordPress blog and it is very successful at catching spam. Unfortunately my lack of Akismet on ZenPhoto is causing me to get spammed that way and the spam volumes are increasing on a daily basis.

Any and all help appreciated.

As you know, the developers do not test all the plugins posted to the site, so we do not know if this one will work with version 1.2.5.

Also, the installation instructions that are included with the plugin are incorrect. The plugin must be placed in the `plugins/spamfilters/` folder, not the `plugins` folder.

This plugin has not been maintained by its developer for quite some time and is actually known not to work perfectly anymore as apparently Akismet changed something regarding their API.

Thanks for the pointers. I have now added the plugin to plugins/spamfilters and can confirm that it works under 1.2.5 however posting is very slow (I presume this is as a result of the change to the Akismet API you mention). Looks like I'm going to have to do some hacking around myself on this one.

I would also like to say thanks to all the ZenPhoto developers for a great product. I made the switch from gallery a while ago and have never looked back - I absolutely love it. Keep up the good work.

A quick update on this, just in case anyone else wants to use the Akismet plugin on ZenPhoto 1.2.5 and is having slow posting problems (but otherwise successful operation)

Following advice from the following site:
http://blog.defv.be/2008/2/22/akismet-problems

I added "Connection: close" to the headers of the akismet HTTP request in the plugin, just below line 251

The plugin now functions perfectly and all spam is being blocked by Akismet with no slow posting issues.

In case anyone was wondering where to obtain the plugin you can do so from the ZenPhoto SVN here:
http://www.zenphoto.org/svn/tags/1.2.3/zp-core/plugins/spamfilters/

Hope this helps!

The plugin may also be found here http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/06/zenphoto-plugins/#spamfilter-akismet. If you will provide your changed version, we will update the site with it. Thanks for letting us know it still works on 1.2.5. Some others had had issues with earlier Zenphoto versions.

You can create a ticket and attach your updated file. Maybe we can even fix the install instructions

I have created a ticket and attached a zip file containing updated install instructions and the updated akismet.php plugin file.

http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/1175

Thanks. I will update the plugins page entry.