Honeypot

Installation

To install this module, composer require it, or place it in your modules folder and enable it on the modules page.

Configuration

All settings for this module are on the Honeypot configuration page, under the Configuration section, in the Content authoring settings. You can visit the configuration page directly at admin/config/content/honeypot.

Note that, when testing Honeypot on your website, make sure you're not logged in as an administrative user or user 1; Honeypot allows administrative users to bypass Honeypot protection, so by default, Honeypot will not be added to forms accessed by site administrators.

Use in Your Own Forms

If you want to add honeypot to your own forms, or to any form through your own module's hook_form_alter's, you can simply place the following function call inside your form builder function (or inside a hook_form_alter):

honeypot_add_form_protection(
  $form,
  $form_state,
  ['honeypot', 'time_restriction']
);

Note that you can enable or disable either the honeypot field, or the time restriction on the form by including or not including the option in the array.

Testing

Honeypot includes a docker-compose.yml file that can be used for testing purposes. To build a Drupal 8 environment for local testing, do the following:

1. Make sure you have Docker for Mac (or for whatever OS you're using) installed.

2. Run the following commands in this directory to start the environment and install Drush:

   docker-compose up -d
   docker-compose exec drupal bash -c 'composer install --dev'
   docker-compose exec drupal bash -c 'composer require --dev drush/drush'
   

3. Link the honeypot module directory into the Drupal modules directory:

   docker-compose exec drupal ln -s /opt/honeypot/ /var/www/html/modules/honeypot
   

4. Install Drupal with Drush:

   docker-compose exec drupal bash -c 'vendor/bin/drush site:install standard --site-name="Honeypot Test" --account-pass admin -y && chown -R www-data:www-data sites/default/files'
   

5. Log into http://localhost/ with admin/admin and enable Honeypot (and the Testing module, if desired).

Credit

The Honeypot module was originally developed by Jeff Geerling of Midwestern Mac, LLC (midwesternmac.com), and sponsored by Flocknote (flocknote.com).