I have implemented a simple form on a site using the PHP Feedback Form Action. After i verified that the form worked OK, i then added the Advanced feature Spam Trap. My issue is that i expected to see a “Hidden Field” when i look at the list of items in the Site/Page window … there is no extra field.
Also when i submit a form and print off the fields (email) and their contents, should’t i see and empty field??
Hi John,
The Action creates the hidden field itself when the page is published. You won’t see this in the site panel as Freeway is unaware that the Action is going to create it. You also won’t see it show up on your previewed page unless you specifically turn CSS off in the browser. If, however, you look at the source code for the page you should find the field just after the opening form tag.
The idea is that an automated script will ‘see’ the field and fill it in whereas an average user will not. When the form gets processed the code looks for content in this field and if found assumes the sender isn’t human and stops the email getting processed.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Tim.
On 28 May 2012, at 12:55, ejw wrote:
I have implemented a simple form on a site using the PHP Feedback Form Action. After i verified that the form worked OK, i then added the Advanced feature Spam Trap. My issue is that i expected to see a “Hidden Field” when i look at the list of items in the Site/Page window … there is no extra field.
Also when i submit a form and print off the fields (email) and their contents, should’t i see and empty field??
Thanks, i had been looking at the pagename-go.php page and noted the code associated with a field name …comments … and did not realise that the field was identifiable in the source !! Still learning this stuff.