On 3/13/2013 4:38 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote:
Let me preface my question by noting that I am virtually a PHP novice. Although
I am a long-time webmaster, and have used PHP for some years to give visitors
access to information in my SQL database, this is my first attempt to use it
for another
At 11:20 AM 3/14/2013, Jim Giner wrote:
And use a captcha (which I personally can never read!) to keep the robots at
bay.
I dislike CAPTCHAs, and some bots are pretty good at beating them. I'm
exploring alternatives that exploit the differences between the ways that bots
deal with pages and
On 3/14/2013 12:40 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote:
I have made some progress. It occurred to me that the problem that I had in accessing files outside the web
root could be a pathing problem, and that was the case. I finally ran phpinfo() and examined
_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT] to see what the correct
On 3/14/2013 12:43 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote:
At 11:20 AM 3/14/2013, Jim Giner wrote:
And use a captcha (which I personally can never read!) to keep the robots at
bay.
I dislike CAPTCHAs, and some bots are pretty good at beating them. I'm
exploring alternatives that exploit the differences
On 14-3-2013 17:43, Dale H. Cook wrote:
At 11:20 AM 3/14/2013, Jim Giner wrote:
And use a captcha (which I personally can never read!) to keep the robots at
bay.
I dislike CAPTCHAs, and some bots are pretty good at beating them. I'm
exploring alternatives that exploit the differences
correlate various types of information, which is very hard. For a human,
this is very simple. It's simple, and very friendly to your guests.
Assuming humans will continue to behave as I've seen them behave so
far, even this simple system will guarantee you angry emails from
people who'll want
At 01:26 PM 3/14/2013, Jim Giner wrote:
I don't think you ever want the filename buried in the web page.
Why not? The file itself is outside the root. In any case the finished product
will use tokens instead of filenames. While I am working out the bugs it is
easier to use filenames. I use an
At 02:27 PM 3/14/2013, Marc Guay wrote:
Assuming humans will continue to behave as I've seen them behave so
far, even this simple system will guarantee you angry emails from
people who'll want to argue that five is a colour in some
circumstances.
Marc has a very valid point. My goal is to weed
On 3/14/2013 3:44 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote:
At 01:26 PM 3/14/2013, Jim Giner wrote:
I don't think you ever want the filename buried in the web page.
Why not? The file itself is outside the root. In any case the finished product
will use tokens instead of filenames. While I am working out the
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