Post by ri2k » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:47 pm

I am getting too many spams via contact form and I have other ways for customers to contact me. So, I'd like to disable/remove the contact form from the contact page.

Is there an easy way to do this? I looked around but couldn't see a solution for this for 3.6.0.6

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Post by johnp » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:10 pm

You can but you can also install a firewall, bad traffic blocker, captcha and spam blocker extensions.

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Post by ri2k » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:14 pm

johnp wrote:
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You can but you can also install a firewall, bad traffic blocker, captcha and spam blocker extensions.
Okay, where do I find a suitable firewall, bad traffic blocker, captcha and spam blocker extensions that you speak of? There's way too many on the market, can't figure out which one would actually work.

Can you please share how to disable the form if you know how to do it, since you mentioned it can be done.

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Post by johnp » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:24 pm

These are my two goto add-ons:

Ninja Firewall
https://nintechnet.com/ninjafirewall/pro-edition

Cidram
https://github.com/CIDRAM/CIDRAM

Here's a few extensions to consider:

https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... n_id=15035

https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... n_id=19775

https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... n_id=38244

The rough way to remove the contact form would be to remove it from the contact page file as below if you're using the default theme. The correct way would be to use a Vqmod or Ocmod.

/catalog/view/theme/default/template/information/contact.twig

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Post by JNeuhoff » Sat Nov 19, 2022 10:53 pm

Or you could use the SpamBot Buster which is able to distinguish between genuine human users and spambots, and which rejects the latter not only for the contact page, but it also prevents fake account registrations, amongst others.

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Post by ri2k » Sun Nov 20, 2022 5:59 am

JNeuhoff wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 10:53 pm
Or you could use the SpamBot Buster which is able to distinguish between genuine human users and spambots, and which rejects the latter not only for the contact page, but it also prevents fake account registrations, amongst others.
Does it actually work?
I have never used an extension like this before. How does it function? What is the mechanism?

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Post by ri2k » Sun Nov 20, 2022 6:08 am

johnp wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:24 pm

The rough way to remove the contact form would be to remove it from the contact page file as below if you're using the default theme.

/catalog/view/theme/default/template/information/contact.twig
Where do I remove it within the contact.twig? Should I comment something out?

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Post by JNeuhoff » Sun Nov 20, 2022 8:11 pm

ri2k wrote:
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Does it actually work?
I have never used an extension like this before. How does it function? What is the mechanism?
Of course it works. It uses an invisible honeypot trap field which only robots will fill in. Also, it checks for certain keyboard/mouse/touch events for the form submissions which robots usually fail to trigger.

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Post by ri2k » Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:08 pm

JNeuhoff wrote:
Sun Nov 20, 2022 8:11 pm
ri2k wrote:
Sun Nov 20, 2022 5:59 am
Does it actually work?
I have never used an extension like this before. How does it function? What is the mechanism?
Of course it works. It uses an invisible honeypot trap field which only robots will fill in. Also, it checks for certain keyboard/mouse/touch events for the form submissions which robots usually fail to trigger.
Thank you, it sounds interesting. I will check it out.

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Post by paulfeakins » Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:10 pm

ri2k wrote:
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I am getting too many spams via contact form
Try this: https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... er=antropy

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Post by vaidyamanishjoshi » Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:42 am

You can use extension to hide contact us form


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Post by OpenCode3.0 » Tue Jan 31, 2023 2:00 am

ri2k wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:47 pm
I am getting too many spams via contact form and I have other ways for customers to contact me. So, I'd like to disable/remove the contact form from the contact page.

Is there an easy way to do this? I looked around but couldn't see a solution for this for 3.6.0.6
try this it is free and it works

https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... e=0&page=1

you can also do this on your stylesheet.css:

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#information-contact form {
    display: none !important;
}

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