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Testing Akismet on a Perch Form

I have a way (from Akismet) of testing a Perch Form to see if Akismet is flagging a completed form as spam. Perch Debug is switched on and is telling me that my test is not being detected as spam by Akismet. The people at Akismet tell me I need to put this specific value into the field that they called 'comment_author'.

My form has a First Name and Last Name, plus several other fields to complete. How can I tell, or how can I ensure, that I get this test value into the field that's returned to Akismet as 'comment_author'?

Thanks, Graham
Graham Street

Graham Street 17 points

  • 7 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

7 years ago

Is the field you've designated with antispam="name"
Graham Street

Graham Street 17 points

7 years ago

Got it - I should try reading the documentation!! - https://docs.grabaperch.com/docs/blog/spam/

I've moved from just using a honeypot and didn't re-read the Akismet info. On it now!! Sorry.
Graham Street

Graham Street 17 points

7 years ago

Yes, of course it worked. Sorry for getting that wrong. I did see the error below in debug on the site's contact page if its important. There is no URL field in the form on the website I'm testing so that might explain it.

Array
(
    [type] => 8
    [message] => Undefined index: url
    [file] => /home/xxxxx/public_html/perch/addons/apps/perch_forms/PerchForms_Akismet.class.php
    [line] => 48
)