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Symon

How to stop spam bots using your feedback form ??

The last few days i,m getting spam though my contact us form, is there a way to stop this ?

I cant block them as the message is sent form my email so in effect i,m sending them to myself, i,ve done a few ip checks , when i get them i log on quick, but there are no logs of seeing who has done it.

www.farnboroughinvincibles.co.uk
admin (no pm's please)

All I can think of is to stick up a phony image confirmation image, and add a javascript test in a forum submit routine.

cms_modactions.tpl has example code that may help:

Code:

<script>
function doSubmit()
{

   form = document.getElementById("modactionForm");
        imageid = document.getElementById("confimid");
   queue="";
   if (form)
   {
            if (confirmid.value == "aZsdj8")
           {
             form.submit();
           }
           else
          {
               alert("please enter image code correctly");
          }
       }

}
</script>

Enter code:<input type="text" id="confirmid" />
<input type="submit" name="send" value="Submit" onclick="doSubmit()") />
Symon

Just being doing some research for this , and captcha does seem the most used idea.

However i,ve read but cant find the code, that there is a code that checks that the submit button has been pressed, because spambots do not use your actual form page as such.
admin (no pm's please)

You are of course right, I was about to post that I was taking rot  
Symon

Stab in the dark but could it be possible to link to the visual confirmation .php that we use in sign ups ?
admin (no pm's please)

Symon wrote:
Stab in the dark but could it be possible to link to the visual confirmation .php that we use in sign ups ?


Not exactly that easy.

this is one of those things that needs thinking about.

e.g. it would be quite easy to make visual confirmation an optional part of the emailer.

But visual confirmation is a modular idea. It would make more sense in some ways to have a visual confirmation portal, then again how the heck would that actually hang together  

Basically I need thinking time.
Symon

admin (no pm's please) wrote:
Symon wrote:
Stab in the dark but could it be possible to link to the visual confirmation .php that we use in sign ups ?


Not exactly that easy.

this is one of those things that needs thinking about.

e.g. it would be quite easy to make visual confirmation an optional part of the emailer.

But visual confirmation is a modular idea. It would make more sense in some ways to have a visual confirmation portal, then again how the heck would that actually hang together  

Basically I need thinking time.


I wont bug you  Wink

I do like to throw up some brain teaser every now and again.
admin (no pm's please)

I guess it would have to be an option in each relevant portal, a separate CAPTCHA portal would make things far more complex for the user.

So maybe start with the emailer portal and see where it goes.

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