Improving the Simple Contact Form

A few weeks back, we learned how to build a simple contact form to allow our users to send us feedback directly from a site.

As noted in the comments, there were a few shortcomings with the contact form. Most notably, there was no spam protection whatsoever. Additionally, if the user made a mistake, their message would be lost, which is extremely inconvenient.

To make this contact form ready to use on a real website, we'll be adding both a basic spam protection system and the ability to store the message in a session in case the user makes a mistake.

NOTE: Like all projects built on this blog, this is being presented as a teaching exercise and a demonstration, so be sure to double-check it before... read more

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