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It all makes perfect sense! Thanks for explaining. I've learned a ton over the past few months about backend setup.
As far as htmlspecialchars, I've not heard about it but I'll definitely look into it. Like I said, my site doesn't have any injection vulnerabilities (from my limited testing, at least) but it couldn't hurt to have another safeguard on top of it.
That hidden form idea is honestly genius. I might have to steal that... lol. From my SQL injection tests, the bot did in fact fill out every form. What prompted you to come up with that idea? Have you dealt with a previous spam attack on this (or another) site of yours?
My site isn't up yet, but it's nearing completion (well, hopefully... last 10% of a project ends up taking 90% of the time lol)
I'll be sure to share it once I get to a good point.