In this tutorial I will show you how to create those nifty little verification images you see on alot of forms these days. You know, the ones where you have to enter the mixed up text from a image into a form field to verify that you are a person and not a script.
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create one of those cool and sometimes annoying little verification images you see on forms you fill out. Where the image displays a string of characters and you have to enter them into a field to prove your human. This is a security measure to keep spam and automated scripts out.
The main focus of this tutorial is to create a very basic counter using a txt file and php. This is just a simple counter with nothing fancy. This does not count unique visitors, it counts page views.
The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to create a very simple guestbook using PHP and a MySQL database. This guestbook is secure by blocking malicious code in the entries.