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mobleyce
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Need PHP form writing help

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Help anyone - I have a site which has two customer inquiry forms, currently I spend more time removing spam than answering customer inquiries. I was told to use Captcha in PHP to stop the spam. I am not a programmer. Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to learn this code? You can find one of my forms here: http://idratherbegrilling.com/WholesaleIRBG.html
any help would greatly appreciated. I've already spent a couple of hours looking over the PHP manual still confused.

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Clint
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I'm not sure how to say this, Clint, but if you're not a programmer, the best advice I can give you is to find a programmer who will do this for you. "Captcha" is just a general technique for using PHP, so if you don't already know PHP, you're going to have a very hard time trying to integrate it into your web site.
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Also try searching for snippets of it, because it's a wellknown form of 'protection' today and many variants of it.

You could also start abit easier by adding a textfield to the form, where the user is asked to write the sum of 2 or 3 random numbers, a sum that you later verify. It's not helpful for userspam, but a step closer for the most common and dumber spamspiders. Might work as a solution until you get Captcha working.

Just a thought.
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