how do I check that a text field only contains the letter x

[jc@rcc]

Originally Posted by Philip M

I think you are under-estimating what is required here. One does not learn a server-side language in a few days or a few weeks.

I know it isn't that easy, but what languages are we talking about?

Originally Posted by 007julien

There is no need of PHP, form or to detext X, to play TicTacToe ! Javascript is enough, see this page.

Good game, but it was not about playing tictactoe, it is about creating an anti spambot contact form. There is a hidden field that needs to be left blank, a checkbox that must be unchecked and an "x" that needs to be placed in only one of 5 text fields (the others of which need to be left blank)!!!

[Philip M]

Originally Posted by jc@rcc

I know it isn't that easy, but what languages are we talking about?

I would suppose PHP these days. Perhaps PERL.

Note that human spammers can submit your form simply by disabling Javascript.

[jc@rcc]

OTT? It's only untick a box and put an "x" in an obvious place! I just don't like spam!!

When I created the site in 2009 I had a simple contact page with not anti spam meassures, I didn't know I needed them and after a while I was recieving 4 or 5 spam responses a day! Since then I have just had a page with a "contact me at name(at)address.co.uk (replace the (at) with @" message. With the site revamp I wanted to reinstate the contact form and read about these alternative methods to captcha.

Here is the website as it is at the moment.

Additional:

Have just found this tutorial. Will take me a while to digest and adapt the php, but it looks do-able.

[LearningCoder]

Originally Posted by Philip M

No, not at all a new feature.

For more info see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...operator-i-use

Thank you for the link. I have a JavaScript book from Wrox which isn't too old, yet it says nothing about the equality operator in there....

Again, thank you for the link, i'll give that a read!.

Regards,

LC.

[jc@rcc]

Originally Posted by Philip M

Note that human spammers can submit your form simply by disabling Javascript.

That's why I want to do the server side as well.