Anti spam for contact form?

neilmac

neilmac

Messages
1,053
Name
Neil McLeland
Edit My Images
Yes
I have a contact form on my website, the contact form is http://www.photographyholidayspain.casa-blanca-rural.com/contact_us.html It's a standard sort of form that has various boxes to fill in and submit. I'd like to add a security question/area to cut down on the plebs who send gobbledegook enquiries.

Anyone know how its done, for free preferably :)

Thank you in advance

Neil
 
Agree with Just Dave,

Your email addy is also visible in the source code of the site.

I use coffecup webform builder, it does it in flash, never had any problems with spammers. Think it retails around £30 online

Trev
 
Thanks for your speedy reply Dave, I've just had a quick look via your link and that looks interesting, but it seems to be a complete contact form. I would use something like this if I had to, but would prefer to include some sort of capcha script thing in my existing form, if such a thing is possible?
 
TrevDR said:
Agree with Just Dave,

Your email addy is also visible in the source code of the site.

I use coffecup webform builder, it does it in flash, never had any problems with spammers. Think it retails around £30 online

Trev
Click to expand...

Hi Trev, thanks for that, I'll have a look in case a freebie is not available.

How would I hide the email address in the source code? Didn't realise that could be done :thinking:

Cheers
 
It should give you the option of editing the form to suit your needs I would think.
 
Yeah thats why I use a flash based webform it hides all the email info in another place.

There is also an email address encryption programme out there some where. I'll see if I can find it
 
I use Bell php mailer, absolute doddle to set up, free, you just put your email details into the config script, and it generates the form and a security question. You cannot see any email address in the page code as far as I can see, and dont get spam from it. You do, IIRC, have your contact page as dot php rather then dot html/htm, but any html on the page still works as normal.

LINKY

Example of how it looks in use. LINKY
 
Oops sorry, thats only if you display your web address, but the are others that encrypt the source
 
You may be interested to know that the spammers now have a way around the CAPTCHA.

They are sending out little stripper games and you have to correctly type in the letters shown in a gif to remove an item of clothing. Your answers are sent out to the originator.

The gifs are captures of the CAPTCHA script images and so they build up a response in plain text of the options over a period of time.
 
PsiFox said:
You may be interested to know that the spammers now have a way around the CAPTCHA.

They are sending out little stripper games and you have to correctly type in the letters shown in a gif to remove an item of clothing. Your answers are sent out to the originator.

The gifs are captures of the CAPTCHA script images and so they build up a response in plain text of the options over a period of time.
Click to expand...

That is terrible. Do you happen to know what the link to such games, so that I can, er, avoid it....;)
 
i set up a simple php contact form on my site that prevents the spammers very well...just a quick google should set you straight
 
Just a quick update..... I have put a simple text area on each of my sites' contact forms that requires a specific numerical answer to a simple sum - seems to work as the usual rubbish has disappeared :D. (for now anyway)

I've encrypted the email addresses that show as text but haven't found a way to encrypt those in the source code .....yet ;)

Thanks all for your input

:thumbs:
 
neilmac said:
I've encrypted the email addresses that show as text but haven't found a way to encrypt those in the source code .....yet ;)
Click to expand...

Just use the same encryption string you used for the text and replace the email address in the source code after the "mailto:"
 
Caledonia said:
Just use the same encryption string you used for the text and replace the email address in the source code after the "mailto:"
Click to expand...

Hmmm... that's what I did initially when I thought the earlier advice was for source code email addresses, but after having changed them all :bang: I sent some test contact forms and nothing arrived at all. So I ended up just using the encryption on visible text email addresses which worked fine. :shrug:

I'll try just one site again and see if I did something wrong first time.

Cheers,

Neil
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top