Join a PHPBB forums when registrations are closed

[bug14]

This may not work with all PHPBB sites. I've only done it once. I wanted to join a stupid PHPBB site, but registrations were closed. In this example, I will use http://www.csrvirtual.com/

General Error
Sorry: Registration temporarily turned off due to large amount of spam.

Well damn it! I really wanted to join! .... and.... er... spam it!

Here is how to do it, find another PHPBB, I think it should be the same version like PHPBB1 or PHPBB2.

Example: http://www.stylesheetsxml.com/

Hey! They have the same version as the CSR page. It's even the same color scheme, but it doesn't have to be. Go to register at the second site, click "I Agree to these terms and am over or exactly 13 years of age" and you will be on the page that asks for information like name and email and stuff. Now save that page. You can do HTML only, but I prefer to save "as complete" so that when I use it, the css style and graphics will be the same so I will know what I'm looking at. Change the extension .php to .html, when you save it, so that you may run it on your computer without uploading to a server. Now open the saved file with notepad or something. Find this part action="profile.php" and change it to the location of the registration page of closed site.

Example: action="http://www.csrvirtual.com/profile.php"
Also be sure to check for a subfolder. Sometimes if the site isn't just a forum, then profile.php may be in a subfolder like /phpbb/profile.php

Now save and open the profile.html file. Fill in whatever fake information you want, in all the fields, because you will have to do it again with real information later. Click submit. If you did it right, you should now be on the closed site's registration page and it will say something like along these three lines

Invalid Session. Please resubmit the form.
The confirmation code you entered was incorrect
The passwords you entered did not match.

Now fill in the real information. And join. You recieve your activation email, do that thing... and... your done! You have just registered when registrations are closed. Would you like some tea with your spamming? Why yes please, thankyou.

[Universal]

Sounds neat :P got a neat forum to join lmfao?

[Blade-Saw]

Thats pretty awesome actually!

[Kyo]

<small bump>

See, these things are why I hate phpBB so much.

[Doctor]

You dont have to change the .php to html. Theres no php on the downloaded page, so theres no point, theres nothing to be processed by a server.

[Kyo]

Doctor, but if you change it to html, windows will recognize it as file to be opened by the browser. it just makes things easier.

[Doctor]

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