Some help with contact form please

[Iorguzzu2]

I get a lot of spam recently and I think is from my contact page... how do I encode my email address so that It won't be picked up by spam bots?

[Iorguzzu2]

I already found www.formsway.com , so I placed a contact form instead... My email address is not visible anywhere now, so zero spam :)

[liquidgraph]

I have a contact form on my site but I still get lots of spam. I think bots see it as an add-a-comment form. I even added a captcha and it didn't help much.

[iBrightDev]

http://freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2209997&highlight=contact
http://freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2199644

[softwarecompany]

i also have lots of spam, how can i solve this pro?

[iBrightDev]

if it is coming from your contact form, you can cut down by using captcha, but, you will never fully get rid of it all.

[themoose]

If your website is fairly small you don't have to go as far as a captcha, just put in a non-standard field, something like


Are you a human?
<label><input type="radio" name="jugs" value="yes" /> Yes</label>
<label><input type="radio" name="jugs" value="no" checked="checked" /> No</label>

Then in the script it posts to, before you do anything email-sending wise, put

if($_POST['jugs'] == "no") {
die("Sorry, only humans are allowed to use the contact form");
}

That should help cut out quite a lot of spam.

[iBrightDev]

you can also start a timer, and if the form was submitted to fast, then it was obviously a bot, and you can deny the message from being sent.



<?php
$encrypt_key = md5('RANDOM_STRING_OF_TEXT_HERE_WITH_NO_SPACES'.date('z'));
$iv = mcrypt_create_iv(mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_TWOFISH, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB), MCRYPT_RAND);
?>
<input type="hidden" name="hash0" value="<?=bin2hex($iv)?>">
<input type="hidden" name="hash1" value="<?=bin2hex(mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_TWOFISH, $encrypt_key, time(), MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv))?>">

<?php
//USE THIS WHEN PROCESSING THE FORM
### additional spam checks ###
$huzzah = "WEASSUMESPAM";

$encrypt_key = md5($_POST['eK'].date('z'));

$iv = $_POST['hash0'];
$hash1 = $_POST['hash1'];

if ($iv == '') {
print('Error: You are not authorized to do that');

exit;
} else if ($hash1 == '') {
print('Error: You are not authorized to do that');
exit;
} else {
$post_time = mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_TWOFISH, $encrypt_key, pack('H*', $hash1), MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, pack('H*', $iv));
}

if ($post_time == '') {
print('Error: You are not authorized to do that');
exit;
} else if (is_numeric($post_time)) {
print('Error: You are not authorized to do that');
exit;
} else if (time() - $post_time > 60*1000000000) {
print('Error: Your session has expired, please go back and try again.');
exit;
} else if (time() - $post_time < 0) {
print('Error: You are not authorized to do that');
exit;
} else if (time() - $post_time < 5) {
print('Error: You are not authorized to do that');
exit;
} else {
### spam check passed.... proceed with processing ###
$huzzah = "TRUE";
}
?>

[Yojance]

Add something so that people need to prove they are humans, like using the re-Captcha you see everywhere. It's really simple to use and implement.

That should help you cut down spam