Re: Re: web form and spam mails.

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Every line of php code needs a semicolon.

Dean


On 7/21/07, duketore <duketore@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Great work.....as I am new to php....
> Does the line
> $Name ($Email)\nQuestion: $Message")
> need an ; at the end to make it work...
>
> Thanks for the help & code
> ;-}
>
> --- In php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dean H" <deanhouseholder@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I found an ingenious idea online (don't remember the site) and
> implemented
> > it on a web-form and have 100% spam filtering and 100% valid emails
> going
> > through.
> >
> > The concept is that you set a trap that the spam bots will fall
> into.  They
> > crawl your pages looking for forms.  When they find forms they try
> to fill
> > them out with their pre-created fields.  They will look for fields
> such as
> > Name, Address, Subject, Body, Email, Phone, etc.  Then they will
> craft a GET
> > string based off of the <form action=""> url.
> >
> > So, I created a new input text field called "email2" which was used
> for the
> > REAL email field and I used my regular "email" input field as a
> trap.  Here
> > is my (very simplified) code:
> >
> > <form name="info" action="send.php" method="post">
> > <input size="1" name="email" type="text" style="width: 1px; height:
> 1px;
> > border: solid 0 #FFF;" />
> > Name: <input size="30" type="text" name="name" /><br />
> > Email: <input size="30" type="text" name="email2"
> id="email" /><br />
> > Message: <br /><textarea name="message" id="message" rows="10"
> > cols="29"></textarea><br />
> > <input type="submit" value="Send now" class="submit"/>
> > </form>
> >
> > You'll notice that the "email" field has some css which is telling
> it to be
> > 1x1 pixels with a white border.  This makes it invisible and no
> human should
> > ever fill this out.  The spambots, on the other hand, come to the
> site, fill
> > out ALL the fields (especially the "email" field) and submit it.
> >
> > At that point you just write some PHP code to filter out all emails
> which
> > have the "email" field filled out and continue posting/emailing the
> valid
> > ones.  In this case, my intent was to send emails upon submission.
> Here is
> > the php validation code I wrote to do this:
> >
> > <?php
> > /* SPAM TRAP */
> > $Email      = isset($_POST['email2']) ? $_POST['email2'] : '';
> > $Email_fake = isset($_POST['email']) ? $_POST['email'] : '';
> > $Name       = isset($_POST['name']) ? $_POST['name'] : '';
> > $Message    = isset($_POST['message']) ? $_POST['message'] : '';
> > $SendTo     = 'user@...';
> >
> > /* Spam bot filter */
> > if($Email_fake == ""){
> >     // Legitimate email
> >     mail($SendTo,'[Spam-free email]','Sent: '.date('m/d/Y
> h:i:s')."\nSender:
> > $Name ($Email)\nQuestion: $Message")
> > }else{
> >     // Spam Email
> >     mail($SendTo,'[Spam email caught]','Sent: '.date('m/d/Y
> > h:i:s')."\nSender: $Name ($Email)\nFalse Email:
> $Email_fake\nQuestion:
> > $Message");
> > }
> >     print '<h2>Thank you for your submission.</h2></p>';
> > // End of Spam Filter
> > ?>
> >
> > Hope this works for you.  It's working PERFECTLY for me.  I'd love
> to hear
> > any feedback on this as well. =)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dean Householder
> >
> >
> > On 7/6/07, ~Tarun~ <tarun.virgo@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Members,
> > >
> > > I am facing big trouble with Spam mails.
> > >
> > > I hve webform on my website http://www.silvocrafts.com
> > >
> > > I have done all security measures but still this kind of mails is
> creating
> > > trouble for me. 100's of email daily like this. Please suggest
> how to
> > > prevent this kind of spamming in web forms by php.
> > >
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> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
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