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[Patric Ahlqvist]

[David]

Bram, thanks for this mod! I installed it on my site and it works nicely!

[ketut]

Nice work, I will apply to my snews site
Thanks

[Patric Ahlqvist]

Hey, born4trance... I welcome you first of all to the forum. Hope you'll have a nice stay, and that you keep coming back...We're having a nice time here ...

As for SPAM protection, and CAPTCHA's in particular. There might be, or definitivly will come something that will defeat that, but for now it's (in my head, and I don't know much, hehe) the only real shield against SPAM-bots... Live SPAMMERS is harder to protect oneself from, eh ?. I have had CAPTCHA's on my GB for about a year now, I think... and I haven't got one single SPAM post. So, something's good about it still. But then again, there are different versions of CAPTCHA's and some might be easier to crack than others. Hopefully Bram's solution is foolproof .

I also await the perfect solution, to this and many other things...But I'm not holding my breath, hehe... I don't look good in blue.

Patric.

[gomisan]

Could mods like this perhaps be made into Stickies? It's REALLY useful, feature complete, and no bugs have been posted by users so it deserves to be heralded.

[gomisan]

I've just been givingthis a test out on my website and a clients, and I noticed that all the emails come from 'Nobody'.

How do I set a default 'from' address so they look like they've actually come from my domain?

[Patric Ahlqvist]

Ehh, "from" adress I don't know. But in order to get to see what website/domain it's coming from, change the setting in the snews.php where it says something bout "Contact form" to...I don't know "From fish-cam.net" or something.

Patric.

[gomisan]

yeah, doen that, that helps, because you can watch for the subject line in your incoming email, but the actual 'From' address still shows as 'Nobody" for me.

actually .. it shows as nobody@myhostservicedomain.com

ALSO....

how do I make the 'Website' field non-required? not everyone is going to want to submit a web url when they fill in a contact form. I'm guessing it's easy, but I'd prefer to be shown the right way rather than 'guess' and remove soemthing I shouldn't.

Still not overly confident with unguided editing of PHP

[Patric Ahlqvist]

I know there is, atleast when using plain HTML, so there must be do-able in PHP aswell. Means altering the snews.php though and I'm not sure on how to achieve this...

We'll have to wait for the Guru's to see this post.

Patric.

[brauck]

find the function contact() in snews.php

find these lines:

:

comment these lines out with

and you are done. The url-field will stay blank. Piece of cake

[bramsyuur]

For preventing 'nobody' email try to add this into your contact function:
locate this line:

Code: [Select]

if (isset($_POST['contactform'])) {and next to it, add this:

Code: [Select]

       $headers = "From: " . strtolower($_POST['email']) . "\r\n" .
       'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
       "Return-Path: " . s('website_email') . "\r\n";next, locate this line:

Code: [Select]

mail($to, $subject, $body);and modify like this:

Code: [Select]

mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);With this modification you can send email with the email assigned to your snews preferences and it's added a Return-Path sender address, with this moddification, your email don't be considered as anonymous and, too, not spam by others.
Thanks,
bram.

yeah, doen that, that helps, because you can watch for the subject line in your incoming email, but the actual 'From' address still shows as 'Nobody" for me.
actually .. it shows as nobody@myhostservicedomain.com

[Luka]

I use this one:

Code: [Select]

// CONTACT FORM
function contact() {
if ($_POST['contactform'] == "") {?>

* :

:

:

* :

 

     

  if (isset($_POST['contactform'])) {
$to = s('website_email');
$subject = s('contact_subject');
$body = $_POST['name']. ", " .$_POST['weblink']. "\n\n" .$_POST['message']. "\n";
$from_header = "From: " . strtolower($_POST['email']);
if (strlen(clean($_POST['name'])) > 1 AND strlen(clean($_POST['message'])) > 1) {
mail($to, $subject, $body, $from_header);
echo "

". l('contact_sent') ."

";
  echo "

". l('backhome') ."

";
} else {
echo "

". l('contact_not_sent') ."

";
echo "

". l('message_error') ."

";
echo "

". l('backhome') ."

";
}}}

[bramsyuur]

@Luka,
Thanks, my bad... the 'From:' header need to be the person that contat to me...
I'll modify my post...
Sorry...
bram.
(really, I need to sleep a bit! )

[Patric Ahlqvist]

Just hunted through my site for errors and not validated code, and found this:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fp-ahlqvist.com%2Fhome%2Fsnews_designs%2F

That is one of the pages I have the SPAM protection on. Is this fixed in the 1.5 version or should we start to look at it ??

Patric.

[bramsyuur]

I've edited my first post with moddified code and, now, the code validates correctly.
Thanks,
bram.