BasicCaptcha form processor
This form processor (or form-to-email script) is intended to collect data from an HTML form and send it to a specified email address.
It works with any kind of HTML forms and you can use it multiple times on your pages.
Follow the steps below to protect your existing form with BasicCaptcha; no registration needed.
Or copy our Ready-to-use forms.
Example 1. Simple anti-spam online form protected by BasicCaptcha.
Example 2. Anti-spam form protected by BasicCaptcha with JavaScript validation and some advanced features.
How to protect your form with BasicCaptcha
STEP 1:
Replace your tag <form...> with the following code in blue:
<form action="http://www.SnapHost.com/captcha/send.aspx" method="post" id="myform">
<input type="hidden" id="skip_WhereToSend" name="skip_WhereToSend"
value="your@email.com" />
<input type="hidden" id="skip_Subject" name="skip_Subject"
value="SnapHost.com script" />
<input type="hidden" id="skip_WhereToReturn" name="skip_WhereToReturn"
value="www.yourdomain.com/thankyou.htm" />
<input type="hidden" id="skip_SnapHostID" name="skip_SnapHostID"
value="H2QNMBTDRCF5" />
Change your@email.com to your email address, where the data to be sent;
change SnapHost.com script to the desired subject of your email message;
change www.yourdomain.com/thankyou.htm to your web page address where the user to be directed after submitting the web form;
this can be a page saying "Thank you for taking time to fill out our web form", etc.
STEP 2:
Add this table in blue before your 'Submit' button
(anywhere between <form...> and </form>):
<table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="8"
style="background-color:#ffcc66;">
<tr><td colspan="2" style="padding-bottom:1px;">
<a href="http://www.SnapHost.com"
style="text-decoration:none; font-size:12px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color:#000099;">
This web form is protected from SPAM by
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">SnapHost.com</span></a></td></tr>
<tr valign="bottom"><td>
<a href="#" onclick="return ReloadCaptchaImage('CaptchaImage');"><span style="font-size:12px;">reload image</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.SnapHost.com"><img id="CaptchaImage"
alt="Captcha Code" style="border-width:0px;"
title="This Captcha image is intended to prevent spam.
The Captcha code is generated by an online form processor.
To submit this form, enter the code into the text field.
For more information click on the Captcha image."
src="http://www.SnapHost.com/captcha/CaptchaImage.aspx?id=H2QNMBTDRCF5" /></a>
</td><td>
<br /><i>Enter Captcha code</i><br />
<input id="skip_CaptchaCode" name="skip_CaptchaCode" type="text"
style="width:130px; height:48px; font-size:38px;" maxlength="6" /><br />
</td></tr></table>
<script type="text/javascript">
function ReloadCaptchaImage(captchaImageId) {
var obj = document.getElementById(captchaImageId);
var src = obj.src;
var date = new Date();
var pos = src.indexOf('&rad=');
if (pos >= 0) { src = src.substr(0, pos); }
obj.src = src + '&rad=' + date.getTime();
return false; }
</script>
VERY IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Test your form! It is not difficult, but very important to test it properly.
Learn how to test forms on our home page in the section "5. Testing the form!"
- Make sure you whitelist our email address
,
our SMTP servers *.snaphost.com and *.gowebdirect.com
in your local spam filters (if you use any), in external anti-spam systems such as Boxbe, etc. (if you use any),
also in Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and other free email services (if you use any);
otherwise you can miss messages sent by your form and important script updates.
- FrontPage users have to read instructions
on our home page in the section
"6. FrontPage forms and our Captcha protection".
- We will send you a Website key in a day or two, so you can do more with your form.