TheVoice — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:58:06 +0000

It's from bots. they are hittting all of my forms. Can someone tell me how to have the codes confirm the fields.

supersam33 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:38:16 +0000

Maybe the spam you are getting isn't from bots, but people who just feel like being jerk-offs...

TheVoice — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:31:48 +0000

Sorry that I didn't let you all know I wasn't too good at coding.

Can one of you instruct me on how to make the script check the fields and then decide rather or not to process it?

mscreashuns — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:55:11 +0000

andy206uk;222569 wrote: Hi,

Just adding the hidden fields to the form isn't going to help on it's own! You have to actually CHECK if the field has been completed in the script that processes the form otherwise you'll achieve nothing.

I guess I assumed he knew to do this...

Remember that if they do have a value, it is a bot, and if they are empty, it's a human...

andy206uk — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:45:41 +0000

Hi,

Just adding the hidden fields to the form isn't going to help on it's own! You have to actually CHECK if the field has been completed in the script that processes the form otherwise you'll achieve nothing.

TheVoice — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:26:46 +0000

Sad but true.......It didn't stop any of them.

I guess I'm going to have to use a captcha script.

Any site suggestions for a nice easy to read by human one to use?

mscreashuns — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:44:45 +0000

Not a problem. I would be very interested to find out how well that weeds out spam, even if you need to let me know via PM.

TheVoice — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:08:14 +0000

Ok I've added the new code to my addlinks form. I will let you know how it works.
Thanks a million for all of your help.

mscreashuns — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:27:56 +0000

It will certainly hold them back, from what I've read. It's not 100% effective, but is anything?

Another way you could go about it would be to use regular text type inputs and use CSS to hide them, something like this, but preferably using a class instead of inline styling.

<input type="text" name="website" style="display:none;" />

but the main problem with that is that if a user has style sheets disabled or their own enabled, your text field may show up.

TheVoice — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:55:51 +0000

Ok, will this work? and will more then 1 hidden field be required?