Somebody call security!
I have been having a good time writing this website. I wrote the entire blogging system and I’m kind of proud of it. I am learning as I go because new issues keep coming up. This week the big issue was spammers posting comments to my articles.
My readers don’t want links to pictures of Paris Hilton or ads for Viagra. And I don’t want to have to monitor all the comments on my site, and delete spam comments everyday. So I have found a wonderful and simple solution that I thought I would share.
I went to this website. They have provided a free PHP script to include Captcha security images to web forms. These are those funky images where you have to type the letters or numbers you see into a field, to prove that you are a living, breathing, thinking human being, rather than a slimy, no good spam bot.
So if you are a web developer looking to add some security to a form, take a look at this script. I had it working with this site in less than 10 minutes, so major props to these guys for providing such a great script!
Comments from old site:
Written by Aaron
Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 3:35 PM
So, you think you are smarter than my spambots, do you? I’ll show you… Doh, stupid image code thingies.