Protect a Contact-Form from Spam bots

Posted on Nov 8, 2011 in Blog

When you have a Contact-Form on your site, you are having problems with spam submissions to the form. Unfortunately, spammers have programs that find forms on the web, and automatically fill them out with spam messages. The standard way out is the use of captchas. However, there are bots, that can recognize simple captchas in a second. Let’s review ideas of Form-Spam bots blocking without...

Adding And Subtracting Dates

Posted on Nov 4, 2011 in Blog

Here’s how you add and subtract dates from one another. For example, this simple code can calculate what the date will be 2 weeks before or after 1998-08-14 (yyyy-mm-dd). Subtracting days from a date The following example will subtract 3 days from 1998-08-14. The result will be 1998-08-11. $date = “1998-08-14″; $newdate = strtotime ( ‘-3 day’ , strtotime ( $date ) ) ; $newdate = date (...