Hi guys.

What I want to do is this: I create a hidden empty field in my form having a caption of email. When the form is processed (during submission) I want to check if this field has been filled. If it has then it's a spam and the processing should stop else the form gets submitted normally.

It's a simple anti-spam trick but I believe it could be really efficient and what's even more important, user-friendly (something a captcha is not)

Thanks for any help

I need this to! I have computers spamming 1 of my forms that sends an e-mail response to the user. Captha does not slow it down. This spam computer uses the e-mail response to put my web URL in their spams to others. I really need to stop this thing!

Another way of doing this more user friendly is by creating a simple text field with a question like \"What color is a firetruck?\", \"What color is grass\".

A bot (at least most of them ) won't know the answer while every human will know it's red or green.

That's a good idea. How would you actually script this?

Hello,

You can achieve both of these tasks with RSform! Pro.
Hidden email
Setup a hidden field named "Email".
On the Scripts tab, paste this in the on form process script area:
Human test
Setup a textbox named "Firetruck" with the caption "What color is a red firetruck ?".
On the Scripts tab, paste this in the on form process script area:

I've set this up, and it works good. Except, if the customer doesn't enter the correct answer, or they skip the field, and they hit submit, it takes them to a blank page. Many customer's think that the form has been submitted, when it has not.

Is there anyway to give them an error page, stating that the field is missing?

Thank you.

Hi,

These looks like useful ways of stopping SPAM messages which have ballooned recently.
I'd also like to show an error message rather than a blank page if the user guesses the colour of grass incorrectly. Is it possible?

Thanks,
Chris

djproaudio wrote:
You can make the field mandatory, and then if they don't fill it out the error handler will tell them to fill the field out.

That way, they know whether the form has been submitted, since they can't finish it until it is correct.

Oh, my bad. If they guess it incorrectly. hm...

Well, you can tell them that they need to get the color right in the description pane, but other than that, I think your choices are that of alpha, numeric, alphanumeric, etc., for enforcing form fill.

This is the message that tech support sent me when i asked them about the blank screen solution. i implemented their solution below and it worked....

Hi, I tried the hidden field method as mentioned below but it didn't quite work. Tested it by unhiding it and regardless of whether I type something or not, it still submits the form.

I created a hidden form called Email2 (because I need the Email field for actual email)
then pasted the script below (modified to Email2) in the form process script field.

Help.


Cheers,
Mick
octavian wrote: