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Does CGI Form Manager have anti-bot capabilities (also known as captcha) to keep out spammers? This seems to be the biggest problem I currently have; automated programs completing and submitting forms trying to drive traffic to various web sites. Most of the anti-bot/captcha I see display a random image that people must type in manually to validate but most of them display images that are nearly unreadable even by a human and are difficult to use (too many errors in typing the image code).

Hi Bob,

It currently does not feature Captcha support. We have noticed that multiple page forms or forms with preview pages are not having these issues.

Wow, someone else keeping weird hours like me. I didn't expect a reply until tomorrow at the earliest (acutally, later today during daylight hours -- that is tomorrow to me).

Well, I would have to dramatically redesign my forms, I guess, to either offer preview capability or multiple pages. I think the former would be simpler. Does the PHP Form program offer Captcha?

Late night, yes

Integrating your current form into Form Manager does not involve a whole lot of work. From there its just creating another page with the preview formatting.

Bob,

We also have a new PHP Form to e-Mail solution we released at: http://www.interactive-scripts.com/php_f2e/

This lets you customize 1 template to match your site design. Everything from there is created via the back-end.

Setup your questions, page numbers you want the questions on, e-mail setup & preview / complete pages all done via the back-end admin program.

Thanks. You are just too fast for me. You replied to my reply while I was editing my reply. I was asking about PHP Form 2 Email... I assume it also does not offer captcha?

We'll be adding that in the next update. It requires you have the PHP GD library enabled.

This does easily let you create a multiple page form quickly. with preview.

I have PHP GD support ready to go. From phpinfo.php, GD Section:

I've ordered (and paid for) the PHP Form to e-mail program and am now just awaiting delivery. I am installing IonCube while I wait.

Received and set for processing. Thanks. Be in touch soon.