Setting up a Preview Screen

[geordief]

Does anyone know how to set up-or even has heard of- a Preview Screen to work with the Contact Form?

I am reading that this is a good tactic to deal with spambots that leave messages on my Contact Form but am not sure how it would work.

[FiZiX]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by Preview Screen. Could you give us an example?

[geordief]

thanks
I wish I could.I was researching the problem of spambots getting into Guestbooks and Contact Forms and came across that suggestion.So I Googled those terms to see what it was about but without result.
To my mind it looks like you press submit and come to another page where you are allowed to press submit again.Presumably this sets up a hurdle that the spambots don't clear.
But I am guessing.
Here is the page where I saw it
http://www.neilgunton.com/doc/spambot_trap
I suppose I could contact him but I thought it should be a common thing to do

[WebJoel]

Maybe with something like, -what's it called, -"CAPTCHA"?? Those text-&-number sign-in things that 'bots can't read.

I did a quick Google and found a 'sign-in question' program that might be helpful:

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/6697

[geordief]

Well the link I posted above argues against Captcha as it is a bit unfriendly.
No I have had a look at his own form and there is a kind of form with a preview button which when you use it takes to to another page that reads back to you what you have filled in and allows you to edit and send.
I have downloaded your suggested program but their doesn't seem to be an actual program in it.
It is a WinZip file and when I extract there just seem to be a few php files and I am not sure how to use them.Do they go in the cgi bin?Maybe this program is for a message board rather than a simple contact form.

[kiwibrit]

I think you would be best using Javascript for what I think you want. It could also be done server-side - using a language such as php - as part of a two stage process.

[WebJoel]

Well the link I posted above argues against Captcha as it is a bit unfriendly.... -Yeah, -you're probably right about that. :o *I* don't like CAPTCHA when using a site, -some of those things are quite challenging in a world of making web pages accessible to those with less-than-perfect vision, we get thrown a 'skill-testing' image-blob at them that is often almost impossible for a sighted person to decipher.

[felgall]

A preview page is basically where you pass the form to a second page and display all of the fields that were entered as the content of the page. At the bottom you have a form that consists of hidden fields containing all of the values passed from the prior form ans a confirm button for the person to press to confirm that the details that they entered on the previous page are correct and which then does the actual form submission. This may confuse some spambots which expect the form to be submitted from the first page.

[geordief]

thanks.Could you perhaps suggest a link where I might get instructions to set up those 2 pages.
I did a Google search on *preview page* before but got nothing.I have found an example I can learn from but am not sure if it will work if I just lift the bones of it to my own website as the 2 pages don't seem to connect on my computer.Will I be able to persist my way into it or does it need a little bit more knowledge of Javascript than I used in setting up the simple contact form?