Digital Image Protection - Sending Email - Type Word

[seven_percent]

I am creating a "Contact Us" form that will allow folks to send email
to us but not allow spam spiders to collect Emails from our site. I
would also like to add another layer of protection by putting one of
those scrambled images on the form where the user has to type the word
that they see; i.e. the images that are impervious to OCR. Are there
any built-in components or add-ins to FP that will allow easy
integration into the page?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

No, as the process will require server-side scripting, such as ASP. ASP.net or PHP to accomplish.

Do a search for Captcha scripts based on what scripting language is supported by your web host.

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[Wayne-I-M]

I am creating a "Contact Us" form that will allow folks to send email
to us but not allow spam spiders to collect Emails from our site.

Can you tell how you have done this as I tried lots of things

Splitting the e mail address into zillions of parts - using encrition - etc.
Nothing works. We did all this then changed our e mail address, the spams
stop for a few days and then start again.

Can you give me a good way of hiding the address

You can "view source" at 2 of the site I do (both on the contact us page)
on one there is an enription which converts the e mail address to numbers -
these is the least succesful and on the other the e mail address is split
into bits - this is a little better and it takes about 2 weeks for the spa to
start again.

http://www.folgarida.co.uk/index.htm
This has e mail address is encripted

http://www.ukoutdoorpursuits.co.uk/
This has the e mail address split

Some of the other sites (like takeupthechallenge.com) I have given up and
just asked people t telephone us

Would really like some tips that really work if you have them

 

[Ronx]

The best way (the only way to be 100% successful) is to use server-side
scripting (asp, asp.net, PHP etc) to process the form data. The script
will also add the email address and send the email.

Have you tried Spam Spoiler from
http://www.jimcosoftware.com/addins.aspx ?
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[Wayne-I-M]

The best way (the only way to be 100% successful) is to use server-side

scripting (asp, asp.net, PHP etc) to process the form data. The script
will also add the email address and send the email.

Is there a web site that will go me a 101 on this - I am not a web designer
(I do access DB's really) but the web chap left and we have not got someone
else yet. So I just ended up with this job.
It's good learning this stuff but quite a steep learning curve ?

 

[Ronx]

http://www.w3schools.com provides tutorials on all the major server-side
scripting languages, and more.

http://www.veign.com/development-category.php?type=web&catid=50 has
sample code for forms processing. Veign is a Microsoft Expressions Web
MVP.
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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

 

[Wayne-I-M]

Thanks for that

On the website you gave me

http://www.veign.com/development-category.php?type=web&catid=50

I think this is the page you meant (?)

Which is the bit the will allow me to get a user to me an e mail to me e
mail address - all the forms on all site go to access DB's so it's just the
contact us with e mail bit I need to sort out (I think thats where the
spiders are getting our address from)

 

[Ronx]

That link gives 9 links to articles concerning sending email from forms,
using asp and PHP, including a link to:
http://www.veign.com/code-view.php?type=web&codeid=21
which uses asp and CDO to email the data.

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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

 

[Wayne-I-M]

Thank you. I will have a try in the morning

 

[seven_percent]

The best way (the only way to be 100% successful) is to use server-side
scripting (asp, asp.net, PHP etc) to process the form data.  The script
will also add the email address and send the email.

Have you tried Spam Spoiler fromhttp://www.jimcosoftware.com/addins.aspx?
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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp















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Nice. I also dig the bulk page renamer and a few others on there.
Thanks for that.