Hidden Field Spam Protection

Once determined spammers know that the hidden field is there, they tell their bots not to fill it in.
The best spam-proofing by far is a math equation.

If it's a simple contact form, check out SPForm (with the mathstring option).

If not, you can implement the MODX Captcha plugin for any form. You can look at the SPForm code to see how it's done - set Captcha's mathstring system setting.


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Aside from the hidden field anything we can do, maybe through a small java script requiring the functionality a physical "click"?

Check the "spform" extra; it employs all of the know methods, including the javascript for requiring keyboard action.

Thanks Susan, I will look into spform this morning.

From a high-level look, it appears that some of my custom fields and functions will not work wit SPForm unless I spend a lot of time customizing. I will keep looking though...

What I had in mind was examining how it handles the various methods of spam-proofing. The method I use with eForm (I use a function and the &eFormOnValidate event) came from spform's code.

A while back, I had implemented that trick you shared with me on my Evo sites. However, I have a Revo site I am working on and the validate function isn't working nor is the :empty.