SpamProtection Honeypot Module

Overview

Provide Honeypot spam protection for SilverStripe CMS. Create a form field hidden from users that invalidates submission if it contains any data. Also invalidate submissions that respond to quickly.

Requirements

SilverStripe 3.1.0 and newer or 3.2 and newer.
SilverStripe SpamProtection 1.2 or newer.

Install

Via Composer

Run the following to add this module as a requirement and install it via composer.

$ composer require studiobonito/silverstripe-spamprotection-honeypot

Manually

Copy the 'silverstripe-spamprotection-honeypot' folder to the root of your SilverStripe installation.

Usage

Create a configuration file spamprotection.yml in mysite/_config with the following configuration.

---
name: spamprotection
---
FormSpamProtectionExtension:
  default_spam_protector: '\StudioBonito\SilverStripe\SpamProtection\Honeypot\SpamProtector\HoneypotSpamProtector'

Then enable spam protection on your form by calling Form::enableSpamProtection().

public function ExampleForm()
{
    $form = new ExampleForm($this, 'Example');

    $form->enableSpamProtection();

    return $form;
}

You can change the amount time that is checked to see if the response is made too quickly with the following configuration.

StudioBonito\SilverStripe\SpamProtection\Honeypot\FormField\HoneypotField:
  time_limit: 1

This example changes the time to 1 second. The default is set to 5 seconds.

Testing

$ phpunit

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email support@studiobonito.co.uk instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

License

The BSD-2-Clause License. Please see License File for more information.