Question Answer Validation

Hi,

I have an autoresponder that is being spammed by bots accessing its signup forms. The provider is not giving me help on this one. I want to add a simple 'Answer a question' line to the signup form's existing validation javascript. The idea is to ask a question that needs intelligence to answer so that it will stump the spambots. Here is what I am trying to do:

if (document.signup.fname.value == "") {
alert("Please fill in your First name.")
document.signup.fname.focus()
return false}
if (document.signup.question.value == "Mexico") {
alert("Failed spam test question.")
document.signup.question.focus()
return false}

The first if statement is from the original script, which I copied to produce the 2nd if statement which holds the validation question. I am not a programmer, so I don't know what to do to make the above work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Guy

 

1alpha,
If the text box value should be "Mexico" than you can use this-
if (document.signup.question.value != "Mexico") {

If you just want to check to see if the text box is blank you can use this-
if (document.signup.question.value.length == 0) {

Sorry, that is about as helpful as I can be based on the information I know.

If this was not helpful, please provide the correct answer that you would like in the text box or let me know if you are using a select box and what the correct answer is.

Disco