Another suggestion in addition to validating the name fields is to use Captcha To help stop the spamming of the bots.
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 7:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam >I have a newsletter form on my website that accepts frist name, last >name and email. The sorry spam crawlers are submitting bogus >information into the form. Most of the time, they are sending the first >name and last name in both name fields so that I recieve something like >this: > >You have a new subscriber to your e-newsletter: > >First Name: David Boswell >Last Name: David Boswell >Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >How can I make it so that each name field only accepts one word with no spaces? > >I made several attempts at this using cfform and regular expressions >but I'm not very good with regular expressions so I couldn't figure it >out. > >Thanks for the help, >Aaron Hi Aaron, Not sure whether you've solved this but here's another idea.. Invoke a web service and pass it your #form.email# value. Then check the response back as to whether the email is valid or not. <Cfoutput> <cftry> <cfinvoke webservice="http://www.webservicex.com/ValidateEmail.asmx?WSDL"; method="IsValidEmail" returnvariable="emailResponse"> <cfinvokeargument name="email" value="#form.email#" /> </cfinvoke> <cfcatch type="any"> </cfcatch> </cftry> <!--- #emailResponse# returns either "YES" or "NO"---> </Cfoutput> <cfif #email EQ "YES"> then proceed <cfelse> don't proceed </cfif> Scott ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265522 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
