'message' 'comment' fields into something else to stop spammers?

[Jazzy_Girl]

Hi, I was told a preliminary way to stop some spammers in our forms was to
change the 'message' or 'comment' fields to an uncommon name.

So I tried this technique and all it did was keep in typed message in my form from showing in my email. For instance here is some simple code I tried. My 'message' field in the form area only looks like this when it is working. <textarea name="message" </textarea> and here is some php code when it works.

<?php
$headers .= "From: \" <".$from_address.">\n";
mail($message, $headers);
$from_address = "myemailaddress@myemailaddress";
$message = $_REQUEST['message'];
mail("myemailaddressagain", "Sent From Form", $message, $headers);
?>

So I changed all these message fields to 'post it' . Including this field.
$message = $REQUEST['message']; into
$postit = $REQUEST['postit'];

Like I said, all I get is an email without any message from the form when I change these fields. Can anyone explain this to me please? Thanks! :o

[Pieman86]

Not quite sure, this seems to work...

<?php

if ($_POST['submit'])
{
   $from_address = "myemailaddress@myemailaddress";
   $postit = stripslashes($_POST['postit']);
   $headers .= "From: \"<".$from_address.">\n";

   mail("myemailaddressagain",  "Sent From Form",  $postit,  $headers);
}

?>

<form action="" method="post">
<textarea name="postit" rows="10" cols="60">
</textarea>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send email">
</form>

You need to change "message" to "postit" in three places: the textarea name, when you assign $POST or $REQUEST ['postit'] to $postit, and in your mail function.

[Jazzy_Girl]

That does it! Thanks a lot! I also found out you only need it in two places, the
form, and the request area only, as in $_REQUEST['postit']