webwiz — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:04:10 +0000

Quote: not sure my technical skills are up to what you described.

Well, my technical skills aren't up to captchas!
FWIW - Captchas are not accessible by lots of people; also, I understand that some bots are able to read text in images, so you may still get some spam anyway.

spammed forms

padi — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:13:58 +0000

Hi Webwiz

Thanks for that, still trying to get captcha to work. I let you know if this working not sure my technical skills are up to what you described.

Regards

Padi

Form spamming

webwiz — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:47:22 +0000

One neat idea I read about is to include an extra input field on your form and hide it with CSS. Spam bots usually just blindly fill in all available fields. Since you know that a genuine visitor likely can't see the input, just test the input field for data, and reject the form if the field is not empty.

You may need to add some nearby text to warn a visitor not to use this extra input, just in case they have CSS turned off. (Some hand-held devices may not use the CSS, for example.)

I have not tried this out, but worth a shot as it is easy to implement.

Captcha

padi — Mon, 21 May 2007 22:30:22 +0000

Many thanks teammatt

Will check it out and see if I can understand it I may be back:wave:

teammatt3 — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:57:16 +0000

We've got another thread on the forum that lists some scripts like that. It's called a captcha.