Honeypot anti-spam feature for formbuilder
Previous article Next articleIn this tutorial I will show you how Velden a honeypot anti-spam feature added to a Form Builder form in CMS Made Simple. The idea is that automated web bots only look for the form fields and can't resist to add some information. As the specific field is hidden from real, human visitors you know it should never contain anything.
How to use
Step 1: The webform
Open your form in the Form Builder Admin page and add a new field:
- Text Input:
Name: website
Require a response for this Field: NOT(!) checked
Field Validation: Doesn't match Regular Expression
Advanced Settings tab:
Field Alias and DOM id (CSS id) attribute: frm_website
CSS Class for this field: website
Validation Regex: /.+/
Test it by filling in the form and check that it does not validate when anything is filled in 'website' field. Then fill in the other field and leave 'website' empty and check that the Submission template text is displayed and the form is received by the recipient supplied in the form.
Step 2: Hide the website field
Use some css to hide the 'website' field from the website visitor. Add to your (form) stylesheet:
display: none !important;
}
The website field should now not be visible anymore.
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This seems straight forward enough, but the last step (hiding the field) isn't working for me... I have made sure the formbuilder stylesheet is associated and the css code added, but the field still shows, what am I missing?
Good question. I can't answer that, never tried. But I haven't had any complain, so...
Do you think any browsers' Auto-fill features would populate this field if the user used Auto-fill?
Honeypot anti-spam feature for formbuilder
Article optimized for CMSMS 2.x
Author: VeldenLast tested in: CMSMS 2.2.19
Last updated: 10-06-2019
Comments: 4
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