Getting spammed
I guess most of you have already seen it — I’m currently experiencing severe problems with spam entries. Each time I visit my site I have to face a bunch of new cialis, viagra etc. entries: forum posts, replies and comments.
Since I’m using my homebrew CMS I don’t have the possibility to use any of those plugins available for WordPress etc. to get rid of those annoying entries. I’ve already written some sort of spam filter using PHP — but obviously it doesn’t work.
So you guys are my last hope. Do you know any recommendable tools — preferably written in PHP — that can either check if a submitted comment is spam or — and that would be much better — that can check whether a visitor is a “real” visitor or just one of those spam bots?
I’ve already received some recommendations such as Akismet or Captcha in the forum but I just want to make sure that I don’t overlook any great tools. Thanks.
Update: I kinda liked Danilo’s idea of providing an additional input text field, that is hidden via CSS — so that it would never be filled in by a real user. Simple, easy to implement — I like such approaches. I’ve already implemented it in the forum section — well let’s see if it works.
