How can I prevent bots from filling in forms in my website?

[Guest]

bots are filling in random information in my website forms, then submitting
them via the email submission. How can I prevent this?

 

[p c]

I think if your forms rely on FP for the email submission, you can't
prevent the submission.

If you change your form submission to submit to a custom page that
includes script, you can include in the pocessing code authetication,
validation, and other "tricks" to catch spam. If the crirai ar med the
page can then submit the emal suing an email copnent.

...PC

 

[Ripper]

I've switched to PHP based forms, although I still use FP to create them. I
just strip out the tags for the Web Bot and point the action to a second
page or the same page, depending on how the form is set up. Then, I add a
visual confirmation script and a validator. It's nowhere near as easy as the
FP point and click form creation, but I was getting hammered with SPAM from
my forms.
If you weant to have a look, check out my site and just hit any "Report
Website Error" link on the bottom of every page.
www.ripper1.com
I can explain how to do this in detail, but it's too complicated to do here.
You can also e-mail me at ripper at the above website (or just use the link
for the errors on my site). The e-mail I use here goes into the dumpster...