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Non-interactive CAPTACHA alternatives / spam filtering pior database interts or email sending, your thoughts ? - El Forum - 04-27-2011
[eluser]Madoc[/eluser]
Hello there,
I am fairly new at web development (and indeed at php/codeigniter) so I would like your input or past experience on form validation in order to prevent/limit bot spams (and stupid user trolls).
I am currently developing my first public website and I already have a few forms implemented on my system (signup, suggest content of different types, abuse report, commenting, ...) with probably more to come.
I started to worry about bot spamming when the site will be live but I do not want to use a reCaptcha solution (available through CI) as I find them very annoying as a user, especially with simple forms.
After surfing around I found a few potential non-interactive solutions such as Honeycombs, minimum user response time or javascript detection but as a new developper I do quite grasp the amount of work involved in developing such libraries and script updates and most importantly I do not know if they are really efficient.
Anyone have an opinion on the best way to go forward ? Factors to take into account ? Already implemented CI solutions ?
Many thanks !
Non-interactive CAPTACHA alternatives / spam filtering pior database interts or email sending, your thoughts ? - El Forum - 04-27-2011
[eluser]cahva[/eluser]
I recommend checking out Akismet. Its used by a lot of sites and is proven to be effective. I just used the normal PHP5 version of it and didnt bother to do CI class because its usage is easy as it is.