Secure "Email Me" form

Dinomania · 16 Mar 2006 at 15:43

I think people are being put off by not being able to email me easily from my site (I'm not putting a link in, that means spam++ and I'm getting enough already) - so what's the best way to put in a simple form where people can fill it in to mail me?

Also, if I do such a form, is there a way to keep spiders from crawling in and finding out my address, or maybe get one of those image validation thingies?

Thanks

Dinomania · 16 Mar 2006 at 16:24

Well my contact page already has "email (a) sarawallen . com" but I wonder if that's too confusing for some people

Yeah an image would be a good alternative, hrrm...

Dinomania · 16 Mar 2006 at 16:38

Cool, can't see your email in the code - so how does the javascript tell the form where to send the details?

Dinomania · 16 Mar 2006 at 17:06

Doh, yeah just looked up a bit more. So the email is in a .php file - wonder if there's any way to keep spam spiders off it...

Dinomania · 16 Mar 2006 at 19:08

Trigger - doh of course, that is true! I'm new to all this PHP malarkey, you know.

So a simple PHP form-to-mail with a CAPTCHA image should do nicely. Brill

Will Google some more...

Dinomania · 17 Mar 2006 at 10:47

w00t, done it!

http://sarawallen.com/contact

though it doesn't actually check for entries in the field, so some numpty managed to send me a blank email

Dinomania · 17 Mar 2006 at 14:25

Thanks dude