Hi All,
As this is my first message (apart from the earlier intro) could someone help me work out how to prevent spam-bots on my website. Unfortunately I’m not very PHP literate and the person who used to administer the site is not available to fix this up.
I would like to introduce a ‘captcha’ type security for all ‘comments’ but don’t know how to do this….can anyone offer advice?
Would really appreciate all assistance,
Tom
This is a problem for everyone, and for those not using captcha, it can be very tricky trying to stop the spam bots.
I use captcha, but it is with apps that have it built in and I have not coded this manually.
One way to do it without captcha would be to ask a simple question. Ask the user what 3 plus 6 is and that should filter out most of the spam bots. You would only have to modify the form and a bit of code. It’s not captcha, but it does filter out most of the form spam.
Best regards,
Jim
I have found this to be as effective as captcha. I had major spam bot problem, and I did a simple add 2 numbers and the spam posts ended instantly.
Cool! Glad to hear to worked for you Tom.
Can you me (and everyone that views this) a favor and post the code. Anything you have may help others – pass around the love
Best regards,
Jim.