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Securimage is an open-source free PHP CAPTCHA script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes to protect forms from spam and abuse. It can be easily added into existing forms on your website to provide protection from spam bots. It can run on most any webserver as long as you have PHP installed, and GD support within PHP. Securimage does everything from generate complicated CAPTCHA images to making sure the code the user entered was correct.

Why would I want to use encoded "mailto:" anchor tags? To obfuscate e-mail addresses from spam harvesters. The helper lets you easily encode an entire anchor tag using ROT13 Encryption. The ROT13 encoding simply shifts every letter by 13 places in the alphabet while leaving non-alpha characters untouched. At run-time, javascript is used to decode the ROT13 encryption. If javascript is disabled, then the e-mail address is safely shown by reversing the e-mail address using PHP and re-reversing (versing?) it at run-time using CSS.

Commentia is a CakePHP Behavior that automatically runs after a comment is made. Each comment is tested upon a point system to determine and classify it. If a comment has more then 1 point it is automatically approved, if it has 0 points it continues pending, and if it is in the negative point range it is either marked as spam or deleted entirely. The Behavior is extremely easy to install and requires no moderation from you (maybe a little!).

I don’t like CAPTCHAs. I don’t know anyone who does.The downfalls of CAPTCHAs are many - hard to read, annoying, impossible for those with vision difficulties - and the benefits are slim. So, I came up with an alternative: a plain text math question to ask the user. This component generates a random equation and registers the answer as a session variable. The programmer can then check the form submitter’s answer against the session-registered answer using the validation function provided in the component.