[pmwiki-users] Advice on using captcha with an email form?
Nils Knappmeier
pmwiki at knappi.org
Fri Aug 3 01:53:22 CDT 2007
Hi Heikki,
I use this one:
http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Cookbook/Captchas
together with:
http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Cookbook/MailForm
Although the captcha is not integrated into the website and the page
template, it works fine (may look a bit odd, but have a look for yourself)
Nils
Heikki Vuolteenaho schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> We are running a website using PmWiki. It has some feedback forms for
> users, which have unfortunately been found by spammers. I'm getting
> quite annoyed by the amount of spam we are receiving...
>
> I recently noticed a captcha recipe in the pmwiki cookbook:
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Captcha
>
> Surfing a bit more, I found a mailform recipe:
> http://www.pmwiki.org/pmform/PmForm/MailForm
>
> I thought I could easily combine these two to replace our current mail
> forms with a spammer-resistant version. I think our current forms are
> using the BuildForms recipe and some custom php code.
>
> I managed to create a sample mail form with the captcha image showing,
> but could not quite finish the task. Editing the Site.PmFormTemplates, I
> could easily use the following line to require some fields to be filled
> before the form can be sent:
>
> (:template require from errmsg="$[Missing 'from' address]" :)
>
> But how can I verify that the captcha was input correctly? Or if this is
> not currently possible, do you have suggestions on how I could easily
> create a captcha-protected mailform?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Heikki-
>
>
> P.S. I'm quite new to PmWiki (and PHP), so please try to be verbose when
> answering :)
>
>
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