Laravel Honeypot
Preventing spam submitted through forms
Overview:
The package discussed in the content is designed to prevent spam submissions on web forms by using a honeypot technique. It adds an invisible field to the form that should not be filled out by legitimate users. If this field is filled, the package will discard the submission. Additionally, it includes a feature to check the time taken to submit the form and triggers anti-spam measures if the form is submitted too quickly.
Features:
- Honeypot Field: Adds an invisible field to the form to catch spam bots.
- Time Check: Verifies the time taken to submit the form and triggers anti-spam measures for rapid submissions.
- Blade Component: Includes an x-honeypot Blade component for easily adding the honeypot to forms.
- Configurability: Allows manual passing of values to the view layer for customization.
- Inertia Support: Supports adding honeypot fields to Inertia powered applications.
- Laravel
Laravel is a powerful and elegant PHP framework that provides developers with a comprehensive set of tools and features to build robust web applications. It follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern, offering a clean and organized structure for writing efficient and maintainable code.
