Two captcha problems

Hi All

I just installed the very latest version of chronoforms (v 3.1 RC2) on a joomla 1.5.9 site.

I have two questions

(a) A simple one - is the image verification (captcha) case-sensitive?

(b) Much more problematic, is the fact the captcha works correctly only one in 10 time roughly, sometimes even less. I have scanned the forums and set the permissions as suggested. However, there are times when there is absolutely NOTHING i can do to get the captcha text accepted - and I am very careful to type it in correctly. The errors seem to occur randomly but that would be strange - maybe I just cannot see the regularity.

My form does not store information in a database - it send an email. All works correctly except for the captcha part. And of course, if that does not work, then I might as well not have the form because of spam.

Help would be really appreciated. Thank you.

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

The Imageverification is *not* case sensitive.

There are various reasons why the imageverification might not work, not so may why it would work sometimes and not others. How long are your site sessions set for?

Bob

PS There is a post of mine here about using ReCaptcha as an alternative captcha.

Thanks for your response Bob.

I did find your Recaptcha article before writing my original post but I always prefer not to hack anything as when upgrades occur the hack needs to be re-done. I understand that you may be producing a plugin - if that happens then it will be a different story.

As for session length, I doubt it matters in my case as there is no clear cut-off of the captcha function. Anyway, session time is set to 240 minutes...

I will try and investigate a bit more if no other ideas come from the forum.

All the best and thanks again
Andrew

Hi Andrew,

try to change the session handler in the joomla global config ?

Cheers
Max

Thanks a lot Max. I will follow up.

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Errr . . . the ReCaptcha method doesn't require a hack??

Bob

Hi Bob

Serves me right for reading too fast... (an occupational hazard :-( )

Just to be sure the re-captcha method you are talking about is at http://chronoengine.com/forums/index.php?option=com_chronoforums&cont=posts&p=22368#p22368 - Am I right?

Thanks a lot - you are very helpful (and very lucky to be in Brittany).

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Yes, that's it (just corrected a typo). You do have to add a file into the com_chronocontact folder but no hacking needed. I built it to be safe.

Bob

PS The hack would be needed to let it be used as a ChronoForms PlugIn. At the moment Cf Plugins can only run *either* in the form html *or* after submit and this would need to do both.

PPS Yes, Brittany is good :-) http://coatmeur.com/

Hi Bob,

PS The hack would be needed to let it be used as a ChronoForms PlugIn. At the moment Cf Plugins can only run *either* in the form html *or* after submit and this would need to do both.

Will fix this in RC3🙂

Regards,
Max