FW: [PHP] webform spam prevention

I love this idea, thanks! Jen -----Original Message----- From: viper [mailto:recursivepointer@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 3:56 AM To: jen@cetaceasound.com Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Jen Rasmussen <jen@cetaceasound.com> wrote: > Has anyone used this method or have any other better suggestions? i just use dynamic and not standard names for my input tags like this: <div style="display: none;"> <form method="POST"> user:<input type="text" name="user"><br> pass:<input type="password" name="pass"> </form> </div> <form method="POST"> user:<input type="text" name="c1b0e463e00dba2949e5e75975e23697"><br> pass:<input type="password" name="ad67645ba39ea47c32af449f294f01c4"><br> <input type="submit"> </form> the first form, in the display-none-div, is something like an honeypot. in the second form, tag names are generated in php by md5(microtime()) and stored in $_SESSION array for the submit handler.. you could also write the login form from javascript (document.write) using unescape function: document.write(unescape('%3c%66%6f%72%6d%20%6d%65%74%68%6f%64%3d%70%6f%73%74 %3e%3c')); bye -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments