Adding a honey pot to a form

A sad reality of the Web is that there are "spam bots" that search the web and look for forms to submit spam to. One way to help combat this is to use a technique called a honey pot. In this recipe, we'll create a custom validation to check for spam submissions.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we just need a standard Laravel installation.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

1. Create a route in routes.php to hold our form:

   Route::get('myform', function()
   {
       return View::make('myapp');
   });

2. Create a view in our app/view directory named as myform.php and add the form:

   <h1>User Info</h1>
   <?php $messages =  $errors->all('<p style ="color:red">:message</p>') ?>
   <?php
   foreach ($messages as $msg)
   {
       echo $msg;
   }
   ?>
   <?= Form::open() ?>
   <?= Form::label('email', 'Email') ?>
   <?= Form::text('email', Input::old('email')) ?>
   <br>
   <?= Form::label('username', 'Username') ?>
   <?= Form::text...