implementing a captcha to an existing form.

I have created a website design site with a form to submit quotes that when submitted gets redirected to a thank you page to mail off the quote. now my problem is this form is submitted by spammers. i noticed with security assist we can add a captcha for a registration.php
now my question is, am i able to use a security assist to implement a captcha to an already built form to stop spammers?
what i need is, if they enter the captcha wrong it gives an error "please try again" on the form page. and once its been corrected it will be successfull and will submit to my thank you page.

thanks.

If you have Data Bridge you can add captcha to the form

to add the acptcha form element go to Webassist -> Forms -> Insert Captcha

your form should already have server validation applied to it, go to the Server Behaviors panel, and double click the Server Validation server behavior to edit it and add the Like Entry validation for the validation element.

Select the Like Entry Validation type, for the server variable, click the lightning bolt and select the captcha form element from the bindings panel, the click the plus button to add it to the validation list, for the comparison, click the lightning bolt icon and select the captcha session variable.

use the validation show if behavor to show the error message on validation failure.

yes i do have data bridge, i will give that a go and get back to you :)

there seems to be something wrong. i set it up like you instructed, but it doesnt work. validation trigger is button submit press. i choose the validation type was like entry and choose the captcha variable then added it and the same as field i choose the captcha. and for the fail redirect to the form page.

then added a validation show if for the text "please try again" applied it to my form page and the fail i selected the like entry captcha and clicked ok.

i tested it locally with xxamp but wont work. i dont get an error msg on submit and it will submit successfully regardless if the entered captcha was incorrect.

then i uploaded it to http://webimpact.com.au/test/quote.php same thing happens.. but now the captcha image does not work?

the action of the form is set to post to the quote-thankyou.php page.

when working with forms, always keep the following rule in mind:

All Form Processing MUST occur on the page specified as the action.

in this case, you need to apply the server validation behavior to validate the captcha input on the quote-thankyou.php page.


see this page for more details on adding server validation:
http://www.webassist.com/tutorials/Add-server-validation-to-your-web-forms


as for the captcha image not showing up on the server, when i right click the captcha placeholder and selct open in a new tab, it brings me to a page not found error:
http://webimpact.com.au/test/webassist/captcha/wavt_captchasecurityimages.php?width=100&height=30&field=Security_Code_1&bgcolor=FFFFFF&transparent=0&bgimage=&gridfreq=20&gridcolor=000000&gridorder=behind&noisefreq=20&noisecolor=000000&noiseorder=behind&characters=5&charheight=&font=fonts/MOM_T___.TTF&textcolor=000000


this indicates that the files from the webassist/captcha/ folder have not been uploaded to the server.

thanks for the lesson on form processing. sounds logic!
when the error shows up on my thank you page. they need to re submit the captcha, now the problem is when they click "back" to try it again, the form data needs to be re submitted. how do i have it so the data is saved so they do not need to fill out the form all over?

On the bindings panel, there is a binding collection called validated entries.

Bind each of the form elements to the corresponding validated entries binding.


this is covered in the tutorial I linked to previously:
http://www.webassist.com/tutorials/Add-server-validation-to-your-web-forms

I have implemented a recaptcha sucessfully. thanks for your help

i have a little problem with initial values. i can successfully bind validated entries for my text fields and list/select menus fine. but when it comes to check boxes. i am not able to give it a validated entry via the binding panel? i tried the properties inspector and gave it a dynamic source. for the check if field i choose the check box validated entries binding from the action page and the equal to field i copied the check if field. i tested the form and noticed now the check box is checked by default. and the original value is not there so that means i wont get my value emailed to me.

how do i bind my check boxes with the validated entries and be able to keep my check box value ?

hope that made sence.

make sure the checkbox has a value, then in the dynamic settings, set the Check If section to use the Validated entire binding. In the Equal to section, enter the Checked Value

thank you that worked perfectly. anotherr knowledge i have gained!