Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms
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I am a super beginner at programming and coding. I have taken some classes (used Team Treehouse and some CodeAcademy) although that was a while ago. I am able to edit and manipulate web pages in Wordpress. I cheat and find the codes I need online and I make it happen.
My recent project/task was to fix broken links on one of our sites. I had my first experience roaming through our site that is hosted on Azure and learned basics on how to use FileZilla to transfer files from the hosted server to edit. The links were fixed and all was grand! A couple weeks later, our sales team had over 20,000 spam emails come through from the contact forms. Naturally, I was under the spotlight because I was the last one to make changes although our site has never had a CAPTCHA form.
I am reading materials online about CAPTCHA but adding it to the site is turning out to be a little more difficult than I originally hoped for. I was reading a previous post from SAM about how to pick programming languages and I realized, I am probably not finding the right info because I do not know how to identify the language. I'm also lost because I know what I want to do (or need to do) but I do not know how to correctly describe it to Google.
Is there a guide that will help me determine the language or something that can show me a step by step tutorial how I can add a CAPTCHA to our forms? This all makes me realize that Wordpress is a piece of cake!
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@JessWaterfordTech where have you been! Great to see you back.
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The site isn't WordPress? That had me a little confused.
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@scottalanmiller YUP! I'm back
Struggling just a little bit and trying to expand my knowledge within the world of IT. @BRRABill yes it is not Wordpress 
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Figuring out the language that you are working with should be pretty easy. If you provide some context that should be clear to figure out. Where are you working on this code, where are you getting it from? What tools are you using?
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@scottalanmiller said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:
Figuring out the language that you are working with should be pretty easy. If you provide some context that should be clear to figure out. Where are you working on this code, where are you getting it from? What tools are you using?
If it's a web page, they could just post a "view source" capture, right?
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Or post a link to the page.
I promise i wont spam ya.
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@tiagom said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:
Or post a link to the page.
I promise i wont spam ya.
The last time someone did that their server crashed.
It was a fishing article, if I remember.
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@BRRABill said in [Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms]
The last time someone did that their server crashed.
It was a fishing article, if I remember.
Yes, I can't have this happen, my work would KILL ME! I was thinking of moving towards the Google reCAPTCHA since they posted a somewhat easy tutorial here: http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-integrate-no-captcha-recaptcha-in-your-website--cms-23024
I think this one is easy enough to use. Has anyone had experience using this CAPTCHA method?
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@JessWaterfordTech that example shows PHP. Is that the language that you are using?
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@scottalanmiller said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:
@JessWaterfordTech that example shows PHP. Is that the language that you are using?
I'm sorry for this question: How do I determine what language my site uses? I am learning as I go and have not been formally trained on how to perform theses tasks.
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@JessWaterfordTech said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:
@scottalanmiller said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:
@JessWaterfordTech that example shows PHP. Is that the language that you are using?
I'm sorry for this question: How do I determine what language my site uses? I am learning as I go and have not been formally trained on how to perform theses tasks.
This is a fairly tough thing to answer. Tell us what you know about the site. Maybe we can figure it out. But this is step one to doing anything, without knowing the language, you have nothing to start on. You can't write or edit your first line of code without knowing what you are editing. Have you seen the site's code yet? Where did the site come from?
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Look what we found in a box today.
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@JessWaterfordTech said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:
@scottalanmiller said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:
@JessWaterfordTech that example shows PHP. Is that the language that you are using?
I'm sorry for this question: How do I determine what language my site uses? I am learning as I go and have not been formally trained on how to perform theses tasks.
You can try http://builtwith.com/ to find out what is the site built with.
Check out the sample report about ML http://builtwith.com/mangolassi.it
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@scottalanmiller said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:
Look what we found in a box today.
AWESOME FIND!!!!
@Ambarishrh I have ruled out PHP as the language since I do not see any PHP tags or writing at the top of the pages. I'll check out the site you referenced and see if that helps any. Thanks!!!
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@JessWaterfordTech said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:
@Ambarishrh I have ruled out PHP as the language since I do not see any PHP tags or writing at the top of the pages. I'll check out the site you referenced and see if that helps any. Thanks!!!
Pages? You don't look at the GUI to find the language. That might tip you off, but there is no guarantees. You have to look at the code of the site, not the code of the interface. You need to be on the server looking at what makes the pages.
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@Ambarishrh based off of builtwith.com I am working with ASP.NET
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@JessWaterfordTech said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:
@Ambarishrh based off of builtwith.com I am working with ASP.NET
That's a start. So that still leaves you with dozens of language choices like Perl, Python, F#, Ruby and more. But 99% of the time the site that is ASP.NET will be built with C# or VB.NET. So you'll need to look at the code to determine which one, but C# looks like Java and VB.NET looks like it was written by a little kid, so they are pretty easy to tell apart
No seriously, they look nothing alike, so it's normally super easy to tell.
