>Sorry that I don't know the name for what I am talking about...
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>Anyway, I have a guestbook on a website that is getting spammed. It is a guestbook I designed in PHP (not too fancy). Is there a way I can add one of those things where you have to type the number in an image into a box to proceed? Is there a free provider for this?
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>Or is there a better way to handle this?
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>Sorry, not really a PHP pro, or a web programming pro for that matter!
What you're talking about is a "captcha". Wikipedia has a good overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
Regards. Al
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