hi again now that i have a working contact form i would like to make it secure,i have spent alnight getting confused by watching tutorials and seeing some scary hacking ways just by viewing the source ,i have been reading something about adding slashes? as any one got any ideas as i dont want my clients reciving spam thanks again

Is your form emailed or does it go into a database? Are you having trouble with bots filling out the form?

 

If it's going into a database you can use:

$var = mysql_real_escape_string($var);

 

You could also use:

$var = trim(stripslashes(strip_tags($var)));

 

If you're emailing the form, there's a tutorial here: http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_secure_mail.asp

 

If spam bots are the problem, you could use CAPTCHA.

 

Although I would always reccommend you use the first one.

If you're emailing the form, there's a tutorial here: http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_secure_mail.asp

The code they use in the tutorial only works on PHP 5 or greater.

thanks for the replies will check them out,i am having no problems but there is some easy methods of hacking the type of form i have on my site