Have to redo my antedluvian forms - Tectite still around?

[VL Branko]

Hello,

I have to redo my antediluvian forms and was wondering if Tectite is still the way to go or has something better come along?

Thank you.

[Nancy OShea]

Are they still around?  Haven't seen that one in a very long time. 

[Nancy OShea]

According to their website, the FormMailer script has not received updates since 2009.   

Tectite FormMail Security

I think a better option (certainly more up to date) is PHPMailer library.

GitHub - PHPMailer/PHPMailer: The classic email sending library for PHP

[VL Branko]

Thanks. Well 2009 is younger than 1999

Does the one at GitHub do secure forms?

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

PHPMailer  prevents header injection if that's what you mean.  And you can go the extra distance and add a Google reCAPTCHA which adds another layer of security to your forms. 

reCAPTCHA: Easy on Humans, Hard on Bots

[VL Branko]

By secure I meant the contents are not sent back in clear text easily read by a packet sniffer. I was already looking into adding reCaptcha.

[Nancy OShea]

Refer to HTML form encoding type.

HTML form enctype Attribute

If you need encryption of sensitive data, your form needs to be hosted on a server with SSL certs and HTTPS:// protocol.

[VL Branko]

They are and these days almost all pages are now served up as https. I will look into more. Thank you for your help.

[VL Branko]

Nancy wrote "According to their website, the FormMailer script has not received updates since 2009. 

Tectite FormMail Security​ "

Hmmm that is strange because a friend just pointed out their newest version is very recent "Our latest version is 9.15 (Released 2-December-2017)" https://www.tectite.com/formmailpage.php​

On closer reading "2009" only refers to the last time a flaw was detected not the last time the software was updated.