[PHP] Preventing automated account creation

2005-04-06 Thread coding
Hi, I have been investigating ways of preventing automated account creation on the e-commerce system I am currently working on. Obviously I have seen the graphical solutions to this problem, a small image containing several letters and numbers which must be typed in by the user to

Re: [PHP] Preventing automated account creation

2005-04-06 Thread Burhan Khalid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been investigating ways of preventing automated account creation on the e-commerce system I am currently working on. Obviously I have seen the graphical solutions to this problem, a small image containing several letters and numbers which must be

Re: [PHP] Preventing automated account creation

2005-04-06 Thread Josip Dzolonga
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been investigating ways of preventing automated account creation on the e-commerce system I am currently working on. Obviously I have seen the graphical solutions to this problem, a small image containing several letters and numbers which must be

RE: [PHP] Preventing automated account creation

2005-04-06 Thread Mikey
Well, CAPTCHA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha) is a pretty neat solution ( http://www.pear.php.net/package/Text_CAPTCHA ). You can also generate random numbers (www.php.net/rand www.php.net/mt_rand) and combining it with this PEAR package