Feature request: Honeypot field in rsvp-form

[Anonymous]

Hi,

First of all thank you for this great plugin.

I am currently using it on the website of a client of mine. She wants the rsvp-form to be safe from spambots, but doesn’t like the captcha. Therefore I now added a honeypot-field manually: this is a field that has to be left empty (which bots wil not do). The field itself is hidden by the CSS.

I would propose to add this field in the RSVP-form as a feature, as an alternative to the captcha.

Kind regards,

Patrick

[Franky]

Not a bad idea: less code and should be easy to implement. So you just create a field with data in it, and the user needs to empty the field? And if the field is not empty: no dice.

[Anonymous]

No, just keep it empty. A spambot will always fill in all the fields. See

http://ajaxian.com/archives/honeypot-captcha

for more details. The field could have a label saying “Please leave this field blank” or something like that.

Now I’m on it:

Can the whole form be changed into something more semantic than the table used now?

Like this:

<ol class=’dbem-rsvp-form’>

<li id=’bookerName’><label for=’bookerName’>Name:</label><input type=’text’ name=’bookerName’ id=’bookerName’ value=”/></ li>

…(other fields)…

</ ol>

Regards,

Patrick

[Franky]

This has been implemented in the trunk version. It’s always active so you can just disable the captcha if wanted.

[Anonymous]

Hi Franky,

My apologies for the late reply on the honey-pot implementation. I was not able to review earlier.

I noticed you set the honey-pot <input> type to “hidden”. This will not work, because now the hidden text field cannot be filled in.

The honey-pot line should be something like this:

<span id=’honeypot_check’>Keep this field blank: <input type=’text’ name=’honeypot_check’ value=” /></span>

Hiding the honey-pot is done by css:

#honeypot_check { display: none; }

Apart from that everything works great. Thank you again for honouring my request.

Regards,

Patrick

[Franky]

ok, changed in trunk 🙂

Tx for the input!

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