i have a web form on my site which can be filled in with a customers email, name and question or comment. when the form is submitted an email is sent to an address i setup with all the info.

recently i've been getting alot of spam/junk coming from the web form. for the most part, they usually come pretty close together, which makes it seem like just one spammer (at least at a time). also i'm talking like 5-10 messages at a time.

i'm wondering if people have any suggestions how to protect these types of web forms from spammers.

any ideas/help is appreciated
kvarnerexpress

I was getting a similar thing from one of my forms. All the spam was coming from online gaming sites and they kept copying their keywords into all the fields. So I set up a filter on the commonly used spam words and now I don't get it any more. (This was done in ASP, but the method will be the same for PHP.)


You put the words you want to filter out into the array, then loop through the relevant field (in my case, the message field) a few times to see if any of those words are present. If they are, spam = true and the email doesn't get sent.

Here's a PHP version of the above script:

[quote=beeseven,Aug 9 2005, 03:27 PM]
i've the same problem!