I open this thread because I want to put a CAPTCHA on my site, spammers are killing me:mad:. Can you please recommend a good php captcha script? free or not free. I am interested in your personal suggestions, something that you use and are satisfied with!
@aj_nscMay 17.2007 — #I'm not a fan of captcha's.....they seem like they're asking too much of the user (I know, I am lazy). This is what I did and my spamming has stopped one hundred percent (except for the spammers that are actually people, not robots, in which case even a captcha can't stop them)
I had a standard sign guestbook form for a year or so that was getting trashed with thousands of spam entries a day....so I took my comments field, and renamed it to commnets. The reason I did this is so I could put an additional, hidden field, named comments, and left it blank. Then, every time the form was submitted, I checked for the value of the hidden field named comments and if it didn't return null, then I automatically junked the entry. Like I said, stopped 100% of my spam.
All it takes is a little thought on your part and you don't have to add an unsightly captcha to your form.
@iorgus30authorMay 20.2007 — #I'm not a fan of captcha's.....they seem like they're asking too much of the user (I know, I am lazy). This is what I did and my spamming has stopped one hundred percent (except for the spammers that are actually people, not robots, in which case even a captcha can't stop them)
I had a standard sign guestbook form for a year or so that was getting trashed with thousands of spam entries a day....so I took my comments field, and renamed it to commnets. The reason I did this is so I could put an additional, hidden field, named comments, and left it blank. Then, every time the form was submitted, I checked for the value of the hidden field named comments and if it didn't return null, then I automatically junked the entry. Like I said, stopped 100% of my spam.
All it takes is a little thought on your part and you don't have to add an unsightly captcha to your form.[/QUOTE]
Yes, you are right with spammers that are not robots, Captchas can`t stop them. Your ideea with comment field is very good, but captchas is so "trandy" in webdevelopers industry...
@iorgus30authorMay 20.2007 — #Bokeh has a great captcha script which is free. Do a member search for "bokeh" and you should find his website in his signature.[/QUOTE]
Ok, thank you very much, I will try it. I hope don`t require a link bank if is a free script.?
@iorgus30authorMay 20.2007 — #I'm not a fan of captcha's.....they seem like they're asking too much of the user (I know, I am lazy). This is what I did and my spamming has stopped one hundred percent (except for the spammers that are actually people, not robots, in which case even a captcha can't stop them)
I had a standard sign guestbook form for a year or so that was getting trashed with thousands of spam entries a day....so I took my comments field, and renamed it to commnets. The reason I did this is so I could put an additional, hidden field, named comments, and left it blank. Then, every time the form was submitted, I checked for the value of the hidden field named comments and if it didn't return null, then I automatically junked the entry. Like I said, stopped 100% of my spam.
All it takes is a little thought on your part and you don't have to add an unsightly captcha to your form.[/QUOTE]
You are right, the spammers that are not robots, captchas can`t stop them and your your idee with comments field is very good, it is really work ?
@boxxertrumpsMay 20.2007 — #[SIZE="1"](did you just sextuple post?)[/SIZE] peoples witch bad eyesight even can`t read the forms[/QUOTE] Screenreaders or magnification tools.
@rootMay 21.2007 — #Captcha isn't good for people with screen readers or bad eyesight.
You should provide an audio clip to play with the css pusedo before/after class.[/QUOTE] Which is why the CAPTCHA project also includes a spoken portion for those people.
I would also capture the IP address of the poster if available, eg, coming from the same IP address more than once, hmmm smells like spam, cooks like spam, it prolly is spam!