Contact Form

[driveflexfuel]

First off I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forums but my goal is to help out those trying to make contact forms.

I have been on many forums where people are trying to figure out how to make a php contact form. Many people link to tutorials or w3schools.

I created a php contact form generator with the following spam protection options built in.

Adjustable Captcha Image Verification
Refuse messages containing links or tags
Refuse messages containing spam words
Refuse messages containing words longer than 20 chars.
Refuse messages sent from sites other than your own.
Restrict number of form submissions per visit.


If you would like to check out this generator it is located at www.demonwares.com/contact


I am also looking for a programmer that would like to convert the php code to asp or coldfusion.

[cybrax]

Its also worth pointing out that telephone and fax contact numbers should be just as well protected or cloaked as you would an email address.

Rather than write the area code using numeric characters use the place name instead, this approach works rather well defeating automated harvesting scripts. Local clients don't actually need to dial the area code and those it nieghbhouring towns normally know it as part of common knowledge.

Human powered harvesting aka Mechanical Turks can also misdirected with a little bait. We use an old mobile telephone number on the website completely un-protected and easy to copy and all the junk calls end up there.

It works because humans are essentially lazy, the human harvester could find the area code but as they are only getting a fraction of a cent per number why bother with the effort just cut & paste the one they can get. Thier happy, the spammer is happy, we are happy.

Clients know not to call it because we have text right next to it telling them why it is there but bots cant help but read and store the number. Might be fun to use javascript and create the number at random the way some folk do for email adresses.

[driveflexfuel]

Thanks for adding to the post cybrax.