Akismet

PHP client for the Akismet API. Akismet terms of use apply to usage of this library.

Installation

composer require fyrts/akismet

Usage

use Akismet\Akismet;
use Akismet\Comment;

// Instantiate API client with your API key and website root URL
$akismet = new Akismet('api-key', 'https://www.example.org');

// Define content to check for spam
$comment = new Comment();
$comment->setAuthor('Author Name')
        ->setAuthorEmail('author@example.org')
        ->setContent('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.');

// Optionally include additional environment variables for more accurate result
$comment->includeServerVariables();

// Check for spam
$result = $akismet->check($comment);

if ($result->isSpam) {
    echo 'Comment is spam';
}
if ($result->isDiscardable) {
    echo 'Comment is safe to discard';
}

It's possible to set Akismet parameters directly if preferred. A list of parameters is available at the official API documentation.

$comment = new Comment([
    'comment_author' => 'Author Name',
    'comment_author_email' => 'author@example.org',
    'comment_content' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.',
]);
$comment->includeServerVariables();

If you'd like to provide all parameters by hand, you can just pass the array to the client directly.

$result = $akismet->check([
    'comment_author' => 'Author Name',
    'comment_author_email' => 'author@example.org',
    'comment_content' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.',
]);

Setting global parameters

For checking multiple comments, it's possible to set global language, charset and environment parameters for all requests.

$akismet->setLanguage('en');
$akismet->setCharset('UTF-8');
$akismet->includeServerVariables();

$result = $akismet->check($comment);

Available endpoints

The following endpoints are accessible through the Akismet\Akismet class:

• Akismet::verifyKey()
• Akismet::check($comment) or Akismet::commentCheck($comment)
• Akismet::submitSpam($comment)
• Akismet::submitHam($comment)

Available comment parameter methods

The following methods are accessible through the Akismet\Comment class for setting parameters:

• Comment::setUserIp($ip)
• Comment::setUserAgent($user_agent)
• Comment::setReferrer($referrer) or Comment::setReferer($referrer)
• Comment::setPermalink($permalink)
• Comment::setType($type) or Comment::setCommentType($type)
• Comment::setAuthor($author) or Comment::setCommentAuthor($author)
• Comment::setAuthorEmail($email) or Comment::setCommentAuthorEmail($email)
• Comment::setAuthorUrl($url) or Comment::setCommentAuthorUrl($url)
• Comment::setContent($content) or Comment::setCommentContent($content)
• Comment::setDate($date) or Comment::setCommentDate($date)
• Comment::setPostModifiedDate($date) or Comment::setCommentPostModifiedDate($date)
• Comment::setBlogLanguage($language)
• Comment::setBlogCharset($charset)
• Comment::setUserRole($role)
• Comment::setTest()
• Comment::setRecheckReason($reason)

Any custom parameters can be set through Comment::setParameter($key, $value).

Date parameters accept DateTime objects, unix timestamps or date strings in ISO 8601 format.

License

fyrts/akismet is licensed under the MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.