Stop form spam with a hidden field

• Step 1: HTML

Include this snippet in your contact form:

<label for="humans" class="humans">Human check: Leave this field empty</label>
<input type="text" name="humans" id="humans" class="humans" />

• Step 2: CSS

Now let’s hide the field with some CSS:

.humans { display: none; }

• Step 3: PHP

Everything is setup, now to catch the non-humans in the PHP script used to process the contact form, like so:

if(!empty($_POST['humans'])) {
	// it's spam
} else {
	// it's human
}

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