contact forms that avoid getinng hyjacked by spamers

[gkl]

I would like to put a contact form on my webpage but do not want spammers to to get the email address. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks

[bobdog]

You can google encrypt email address. Lots of results.

Also by using a php form, the mail address cannot be fished out. I think felgall has some scripts for that.

[felgall]

If you go into cPanel and go to the Software/Services section and select "CGI Center" then you will find BlueMail at the top of the list. This is BlueHost's form2mail processor that comes pre-installed on our accounts. It can handle simple text fields and attachments. I am not sure how many text fields it can handle though.

I also have two form2mail scripts available at http://www.felgall.com/php2.htm one that can handle as many text fields as you like but which doesn't handle attachments. The second one which I sell can handle HTML emails with embedded images as well as attachments and just about anything else you could possibly want to do with emails.

[gkl]

thanks so much for the response. I will follow the links you included.

Thanks again

[skeezix]

I also have two form2mail scripts available at http://www.felgall.com/php2.htm one that can handle as many text fields as you like but which doesn't handle attachments. The second one which I sell can handle HTML emails with embedded images as well as attachments and just about anything else you could possibly want to do with emails.

This sounds interesting but I am a dummy and cannot see a use for your script. I'm not saying your script is useless, I'm saying I don't understand what it can do for me, why I would use it, etc. Like I'm looking at and seeing a window but whatever's outside doesn't register... :confused:

Do you have a little "sales pitch" blurb somewhere that tells the unwashed masses such as me how I might use the script on my blog/website??

[felgall]

It is a form2mail script. It takes what is entered into a contact form and creates and sends an email based on what was entered. That is what the original poster was asking how to do.

[skeezix]

It is a form2mail script. It takes what is entered into a contact form and creates and sends an email based on what was entered. That is what the original poster was asking how to do.

So, rather than putting in a "Click here to send num-nums an email" which then simply opens the user's email program, I would install a link that would open a form for the same purpose? And using a form would somehow hide my email address from bots and spiders and such?

I don't know anything about creating such forms. How can I learn something?

All this is to prevent spamming?

It's a shame that one has to, in effect, spent $1000 in time and effort to insure $10 worth of goods. People sure have screwed up the internet.

The internet has become the CB of public communications. At least one can turn off a CB.

[felgall]

It is not only to prevent spamming. The more important reason is to actually allow everyone to send you an email instead of discriminating against those using internet cafes, libraries etc who don't have a separate email program available to use to access their email account. Also those accessing the web from their work where they do not want to use their work email address. I don't have an email program on the computer I use to access the web as I prefer to run email on a separate computer and so email links are completely useless to me.

So instead you set up a contact form in the web page in place of the email link and attach a form2mail script to the action attribute of the form tag. As the script creates the email from the web no separate email program is required. Your email address gets added by the script after the form is submitted so there is no email address in a web page for the spambots to read.