Form Security and Spam

[Andy128]

Re: Form Being Spammed

beebrothers-

Are you sure your on the right thread? I have no idea what you are talking about. Please be more specific.

Andy

[beebrothers]

Re: Form Being Spammed

i used this tutorial from your above post: http://www.netisopen.com/computer/TF001/phpmailto.html

to secure my form and it works about 90% but has some issues that i cant tweak out..

after i followed the tutorial i went to my contact form and entered info incorrectly to test it, no matter what combos i used i got the same error message. for instance right name, wrong email i got error your name is wrong, every time..and when everything was right i still got a name is wrong error and no submission...

i cut and pasted the script and just changed the values in blue to my info, i didn't change anything else (yet)

[Andy128]

Re: Form Being Spammed

Generally this occurs when the field name (i.e. "email", or "name") is different from that in the script.

For instance- if the field name is "name" and in the script it is "Name", then it will always give an error as it is checking for "Name" and not "name" with a lower case. Be sure to match exactly.

Give that a try and I believe your troubles will be over.

Andy

[beebrothers]

Re: Form Being Spammed

i got it now, i had the field names in the right click properties box t1 t2 t3, instead of name email comments...all seems to be working just ducky...

one more question: at the end how do i set this: echo "Thank you for visiting our site and filling out our form. We will get back to you very soon!"

to redirect the person to a nice thank you page and not the error page with a thank you?

thanks for taking the time help

[beebrothers]

Re: Form Being Spammed

i've been messing with the code a little :) :) :) but i cant get it to open a nice thank you page, instead of the error page with a thank you, i'm over my head and the water's only a half inch deep...hehe

[motoxxx]

Re: Form Being Spammed

Thanks for all of the help Andy and Naval. I am going to try this today. I have to wade thru about 100 new spam emails today and hopefully not delete any new clients inquiries in the process.

How do I install a capchta?

I am going to work on this later tonight. I'll let you all know how it shakes out for me.

I love this place!

[Andy128]

Re: Form Being Spammed

Beebrothers-

The way You have it set up is fine. Simply state in the last line someting like this:

Thank you for visiting our site and filling out our form. We will get back to you very soon! Please feel free to use the menu on the left to continue browsing our site.

It looks fine the way you have it. Even if you changed nothing- they would see the menu on the left and could eaisly figure out how to continue browsing.

Just my opinion.

Andy

[Andy128]

Re: Form Being Spammed

motoxxx-

Due to the volume- you are being spammed via a bot. What I described above will solve this. You can have a simplified captcha by creating a gif or jpeg of numbers. Then place this on your form and instruct you user to enter the numbers as seen. Since the bots do not read pictures ( and dont name your jpeg or gif) they will be unable to get past this step.

Look at one I use on my site;

http://netisopen.com/computer/contact/ccform.html

This, along with the security measures previously discussed will likely
fix all your porblems. The big threat is bots- not humans hijacking your form personally.

Let us know how it works.

Andy

[Syllied]

Re: Form Being Spammed

i've been messing with the code a little :) :) :) but i cant get it to open a nice thank you page, instead of the error page with a thank you, i'm over my head and the water's only a half inch deep...hehe

Wow my very first post here. Do I get a gift? :)

I think this link can help with your prob there beebrothers, It worked for me. scroll down below the tutorial. Hope it works for what you are looking for.

http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/forms/9349-bluevoda-forms-tutorial-part-1-a.html

[Jeremy]

Re: Form Being Spammed

Wow my very first post here. Do I get a gift? :)

I think this link can help with your prob there beebrothers, It worked for me. scroll down below the tutorial. Hope it works for what you are looking for.
http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/for...-part-1-a.html

Haha, wow, first post and already helping out! .. we got a keeper here! .. welcome to the forum buddy!

[beebrothers]

Re: Form Being Spammed

I think

i had the action page prior to using the above system of protection, the action.php works great but i can't point the process123 code to the action (thank you) after form submittal.

I solved that by making my "error" page more thank you friendly :)

thanks everyone...

now to try and figure out the enter code operation :)

[navaldesign]

Re: Form Being Spammed

Beebrothers: I'm sorry but i don't understand any of the above. There are 3 well known and tested (in this forum) ways of having error page, thankyou page and security:

1. Using the tutorial way, but implementing some lines of security check (this requires some additional coding on your part). If you go this way, since the script is implemented in the thankyou page itself, the script has to be placed in the "Start of page" tag, instead of the Inside Body Tag.


2. Using Andy's script, and modifying the last line (echo "Thank you for visiting our site and filling out our form. We will get back to you very soon!"; )
with this one:
header("Location: thankyou_page.html");

The error messages are directly echoed, no separate page.

3. Using ABVFP which already has built in all of these and more (as multiple select, multiple upload, autoresponder, security, required fields, email checking, customizable error and thankyou pages, customizable headers and footers for the main mail and the autoresponder mail, illegal form submission check, etc).

You have so many different options that i do not understand why you should have any problem.

[beebrothers]

Re: Form Being Spammed

Naval, i had the script like the tutorial with an action page that had a thank you, that worked great, but i was under the impression it wasn't top knotch security.

i then did andy's way with the process123 and it works great, except when you enter the info correct and send it, you get the thank you memo but its on the error page, instead of the nicer thank you page i.e. my action page from the first method...
what i have with andy works great, i just changed the "ERROR" to "NOTE:"
so when you submit the form right you get a little warmer page.

i will try the header("Location: thankyou_page.html"); in place of the echo

[navaldesign]

Re: Form Being Spammed

Why don't you use ABVFP ? it has ALL the security measures Andy has in his script, plus many more, it has thankyou page, error page (all customized by you) plus many other features that make it a complete form processor.

[beebrothers]

Re: Form Being Spammed

is this: Advanced BlueVoda Form Processor : No coding form script! Just install and use!

what you refer to as ABVFP??

thanks..