FP Forms

[Francine]

We are using FP 2003. We are having a problem with some people using our
forms for send spam. Our question is, we want to add the item that ask you to
copy a random numbers and letters in a box to send the form. Such as the one,
you find a Microsoft’s page… http://beta.search.msn.co.uk/docs/submit.aspx


I need the it to be able to incorporate in the FP forms

Thanks for your help

Francine

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

The FrontPage forms can't do this. You would need a custom solution to
handle this simply because you need something that can generate the image,
remember what the text was, and check for the correct response when the user
enters it.

Although I haven't tried it myself, you could have a form field that asks
the user to repeat some text, and then use javascript to validate that the
user has entered the text. This is not the same approach, and it won't
overcome many of the spam bots, but it may confuse a couple.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP- FrontPage

 

[Francine]

Thanks, Do you know were I can find the Javascript? And how can I do the form
to repeat?

Thanks for the help!

Fran

 

[Andrew Murray]

http://javascript.internet.com has at least one script - I think they called
it a email validator - where you enter your email twice as confirmation -
that could be adapted. I can't remember the exact script. However the site
has a search facility search "email validator" or "field validation" or
similar.

The "captcha" idea - where you enter a code or type in the characters from
an image presented (which should one of say 20 images - randomly selected
image) before a form can be submitted - try the one on
http://www.webwizguide.com

 

[Francine]

Thank you I will try them.

Fran

http://javascript.internet.com has at least one script - I think they called
it a email validator - where you enter your email twice as confirmation -
that could be adapted. I can't remember the exact script. However the site
has a search facility search "email validator" or "field validation" or
similar.

The "captcha" idea - where you enter a code or type in the characters from
an image presented (which should one of say 20 images - randomly selected
image) before a form can be submitted - try the one on
http://www.webwizguide.com