I was on the hunt for an expect library for PHP and finally found one in PECL, a repository for PHP Extensions. I was surprised this was not a PHP module more easily accessible like php-session, php-mysql, etc... but it works just as well.

If your host happens to have weird or non-existent PHP logging features, you can easily enable them in-line with your code as if you had changed php.ini directly.

Unfortunately, spammers of all kinds continuously scan for pages that contain elements in which they, or their bots, can post their spam messages easily. Though the attacks can get sophisticated if they target your exact defense mechanism, you can easily circumvent many of the bots by using a simple captcha.

A captcha is just a method of getting the user to jump through a hoop of some sort to identify