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Apr 6th, 2018 at 11:48 PM
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Wayan (Reetami's Dad)
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can we have a hidden field that should be empty (users cannot see it so cannot enter data.

can we make it so that if the hidden field has characters in it, then the form just doesnt

work (i'e a bot/crawler spam thingy will see a field and would usually put something in there.)
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Apr 7th, 2018 at 06:58 AM
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I think this can be done with JQuery. I might need a little more info on form user scenarios.
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Apr 7th, 2018 at 07:46 AM
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Eric Rohloff wrote:
I think this can be done with JQuery. I might need a little more info on form user scenarios.

There is no form user scenario. Just a hidden field that if it has anything in it the form doesn't work so in other words the field needs to be empty . Users cannot see the field so they cannot populate it. Bots and such can see the field so they might put something in it in which case the form won't be sent. Sort of a way to stop spamming.
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Apr 7th, 2018 at 09:07 AM
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I'm curious as to why you need the hidden field in the first place. If it is in order to keep bots and crawlers out, maybe you can get some help on this site: http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html . Or some deny/allow in the htaccess file.
Spammers (I mean people who post spam) will have to be stopped in a different way, I guess. The hidden field won't know if someone is a genuine user or a spammer.
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Apr 7th, 2018 at 01:41 PM
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The type attribute would have the value of hidden so a bot would probably ignore fields with that value anyway.

Apr 7th, 2018 at 01:57 PM
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Inger wrote:
I'm curious as to why you need the hidden field in the first place. If it is in order to keep bots and crawlers out, maybe you can get some help on this site: http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html . Or some deny/allow in the htaccess file.
Spammers (I mean people who post spam) will have to be stopped in a different way, I guess. The hidden field won't know if someone is a genuine user or a spammer.
hmm if it's a hidden field a real person can't see it so cannot do anything to it. A real person spammed obviously will not see it. But a spamming bot or whatever you call them will regardless of the attribute and will fill it with something. It's only a little thought just curious that's all
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Apr 7th, 2018 at 02:13 PM
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You could try this in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(Baiduspider|HTTrack|Yandex).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Just add the names of the bots in question.
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Apr 7th, 2018 at 02:29 PM
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Add a input and set it to display none with CSS.
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Apr 7th, 2018 at 06:52 PM
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Eric Rohloff wrote:
Add a input and set it to display none with CSS.


Thanks Eric
I know about that what I was thinking is how to stop the submit button working if that field had something in it (other words not empty
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Apr 7th, 2018 at 06:57 PM
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Inger wrote:
You could try this in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(Baiduspider|HTTrack|Yandex).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Just add the names of the bots in question.

I don't know the names of the bots etc,
this is just an idea I have for the themes that I am doing, I obviously can't guess which if any of the people who buy the theme are going to get. I was just thinking about making something simple for them, as a sort of precaution, but one which wouldn't have them get too involved.

Seems to be a bit too complicated
(I can do it within mailer.php, but would still need some extra work from the purchaser.

Thanks all for the suggestions
Think I will have to forget this idea.
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