Akismet PHP 7 class

A PHP-7 class to communicate with Akismet service to determine if a submitted comment to your website should be considered spam or not.

Installation

Requirements

PHP 7.1

Steps to install

Run : composer require romano83/akismet or in your composer.json file

"require": {
    "romano83/akismet" : "^1.0"
}

How to use it

Before to use it, you need an Akismet API key. Once you have one, in order to check if a comment is a spam:

<?php
use Romano83\Akismet;

$website = 'https://your-website.com'; // must be a full URI including http:// or https://
$apikey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
$akismet = new Akismet($website, $apikey);

$akismet->setCommentAuthor($author)
    ->setCommentAuthorEmail($email)
    ->setCommentContent($comment);
    
if ($akismet->isCommentSpam()) {
    // store the comment and mark it as a spam
} else {
    // store the comment normally
}

It's that simple!

If Akismet filter wrongly tags messages, you can use this following methods :

$akismet->submitSpam();

$akismet->submitHam();

to submit mis-diagnosed spam and ham, which improves the system for everybody.

Others methods

This class provides you a set of methods in order to add parameters for comment check or submitted spam and ham. This methods are :

setUserIp (required)
setUserAgent (required)
setReferrer (note spelling)
setPermalink
setCommentType
setCommentAuthor
setCommentAuthorEmail
setCommentAuthorUrl
setCommentContent
setCommentDateGmt
setCommentPostModifiedGmt
setBlogLang
setBlogCharset
setUserRole
setIsTest

All methods return self in order to have a fluent interface.

If you want more details for each method, look at the internal documentation or follow this link.

How to contribute

create a ticket in Github if you have found a bug.
create a new branch if you want to do a PR.
you must add testcases