prevent people from using contact us for spam

**gsdcypher** · 30 Mar 2008, 04:22 PM

What is the best way to prevent people from using the contact us form to send spam?

Thanks.

**stevesh** · 30 Mar 2008, 05:15 PM

Zencart requires that a user be logged in to use the Contact Us form, so far as I know. That should stop most people. Are you having a problem with it?

**gsdcypher** · 30 Mar 2008, 09:38 PM

Hi,

Yes I've had some spam from my contact us form.

Is there an admin setting to require a user to be logged in to use the contact us form?

I found something in the admin that said "Emails must send from known domain?" and I set that to yes, but I don't know if that helps or not...

Thanks.

**Jeffey** · 31 Mar 2008, 04:26 AM

Captcha using TTF & GD mod works great for me.

It puts those admittedly annoying letters to type in before you submit a request. Annoying but necessary these days and this one at least provides readable letters every time.

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=551

**saddlebred** · 31 Mar 2008, 07:16 PM

I just started having this problem. I thought about adding one of the captchas, but I'm blind and despise the things, especially those that have no audio. If they have no audio, people with disabilites can not use them.

**Tech-E** · 11 Apr 2008, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by stevesh

Zencart requires that a user be logged in to use the Contact Us form, so far as I know. That should stop most people. Are you having a problem with it?

Are you sure about this? I can submit a message via the Contact Us form without being logged in. I am a new user using 1.3.8a.

Is there a way to set a flag so that a user must be logged in?

**stevesh** · 11 Apr 2008, 02:45 PM

Nope - I was led astray on that. Look at this thread:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90119

**jmcqueen** · 14 Sep 2009, 06:48 PM

i really don't want to add a captcha. i just want to prevent URL spam at this point and am trying to add something like the following to the tpl_contact_us_default.php file, but cannot get it to work. anyone have any ideas on how to make it work? here is the code:

<?php
$SpamErrorMessage = "No Website URLs permitted";

if (preg_match("/http/i", "$contactname")) {echo "$SpamErrorMessage"; exit();}
if (preg_match("/http/i", "$email")) {echo "$SpamErrorMessage"; exit();}
if (preg_match("/http/i", "$enquiry")) {echo "$SpamErrorMessage"; exit();}
?>

**afo** · 12 May 2011, 01:02 PM

I'd love to find a way to prevent all those "we'll enter your products for you" and "we'll drive new customers to your site" emails, but captcha won't help because they don't appear to be generated automatically. I could be wrong. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.