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exadium/silverstripe-invisible-spam-protection
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Very simple anti spam protection based on principle that automated spammers enter bogus information in all form fields. Field is added to form that is hidden using CSS hiding it from human users. Form is only allowed to be submitted if field is empty. Includes an EditableInvisibleSpamField to integrate with the UserForms module.

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Invisible Spam Protection
=========================

[](#invisible-spam-protection)

Maintainers
-----------

[](#maintainers)

- Marijn Kampf (Nickname: marijnkampf)

Sponsored by Exadium Web Development

Introduction
------------

[](#introduction)

Very simple anti spam protection based on principle that automated spammers enter bogus information in all form fields.

Field is added to form that is hidden using CSS hiding it from human users.

Form is only allowed to be submitted if field is empty.

Includes an EditableInvisibleSpamField to integrate with the UserForms module.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- Spam Protection
- SilverStripe 3.#

Install Spam Protection Module
------------------------------

[](#install-spam-protection-module)

The Spam Protection Module () provides the basic interface for managing the spam protection. If your are not using composer to manage your dependencies , you have to install this module manually.

Setting up InvisibleSpamProtection
----------------------------------

[](#setting-up-invisiblespamprotection)

### With composer (recomended)

[](#with-composer-recomended)

Add this to your composer.json:

```
{
    "require": {
      "exadium/silverstripe-invisible-spam-protection": "dev-master"
    }
}
```

or execute the following command

`composer require "exadium/silverstripe-invisible-spam-protection"`

to install the module. If you have set your minimum-stability to stable, you may need to install the spam-protection-module explicitly:

```
composer require "silverstripe/spamprotection": "1.0.x-dev"

```

### without composer (traditional way)

[](#without-composer-traditional-way)

Download the module and extract it, into a folder which should be named InvisibleSpamProtection.

Enable the Module
-----------------

[](#enable-the-module)

Yml configuration add to your config.yml file or create spamprotection.yml with the following:

```
---
name: spamprotection
---
FormSpamProtectionExtension:
  default_spam_protector: InvisibleSpamProtector

```

Or enable anti spam in mysite/\_config.php by adding line

```
SpamProtectorManager::set_spam_protector('InvisibleSpamProtector');

```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 90.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4635d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/167025983?v=4)[exadium](/maintainers/exadium)[@Exadium](https://github.com/Exadium)

---

Top Contributors

[![marijnkampf](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/699259?v=4)](https://github.com/marijnkampf "marijnkampf (19 commits)")[![JarkkoLinnanvirta](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5046663?v=4)](https://github.com/JarkkoLinnanvirta "JarkkoLinnanvirta (1 commits)")[![purplespider](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/329880?v=4)](https://github.com/purplespider "purplespider (1 commits)")

---

Tags

silverstripespammoduleanti-spamprotectionunintrusiveinvisible

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