reCaptcha plugin

Hi,

Question on the reCaptcha plugin ChronoForms_V3.1_RC4.11.

I have the plugin enabled for the contact form, however I cant get the actually widget to display on the page. I dont see an option to insert the reCaptcha widget in the form. I know its enabled as when I click submit it returns an invalid response from the reCaptcha servers... What step am I missing?

Thanks!

Hi hi-tech,

Sorry, I missed a critical instruction. Add {ReCaptcha} to your Form HTML where you want the ReCaptcha box to show up.

Bob

Great, thanks.

I had since reverted to the manual install using your script from an older thread and disabling the new plugin.

I'll give the plugin another try now. Thanks!

Works nice thanks! Onto further testing...

One more question, I have the "try to republish" option set. I notice this also fills the reCaptcha field with the old data, which I think somehow affects validation (always fails) unless you click the "refresh" icon inside the Captcha widget. Is their a way to get the "try to republish" option to skip the reCaptcha widget fields?

Hi hi-tech,

Hmm . . . no obvious answer to this. Maybe a JavaScript snippet to set the field value to null onFocus?

Bob

Hi, that could possibly work unless the viewer tabs away from the widget before clicking submit?

One more question for you:

I have the mambot installed/enabled. Is it fully compatible with RC4.11? (the plugin file I downloaded had 4.11 in the zip file name).

Reason I ask is once i insert the {chronocontact}formname{/chronocontact} in an article (using TinyMCE 2.0) the entire page breaks with a single php line error for that index php file for that page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::get() in [path to webhost]/components/com_content/views/article/view.html.php on line 121 

line 121:

 $document->setTitle( $params->get( 'page_title' ) );

The form displays fine with all other methods (mod_chrom, menu etc...)

Disregard. It was related to error in this thread http://chronoengine.com/forums/index.php?option=com_chronoforums&cont=posts&f=9&t=13902#p29784 Except I had the "enable mambot for form contents" option set. Once I turned that off I was getting the same error of that user in the above thread. Thanks for this forum, will be securing a license shortly.

Works nice thanks! Onto further testing...

One more question, I have the "try to republish" option set. I notice this also fills the reCaptcha field with the old data, which I think somehow affects validation (always fails) unless you click the "refresh" icon inside the Captcha widget. Is their a way to get the "try to republish" option to skip the reCaptcha widget fields?

Hi Hi-Tech,
pardon my stutter😉 I have witnessed the same behavior. I didn't really spent any time analyzing the cause of the problem but here is a simple hack.

Open wwwroot\compontents\com_chronocontact\plugins\cf_recaptcha.php

First:
on line 243 enter

<input type='hidden' id='beep' name='beep' value='1'/>

after the closing quote.

Second:
on line 294 enter

<script type="text/javascript">if ($("beep")) { window.addEvent("load", function() { Recaptcha.reload(); }); }</script>

right after

</noscript>

.

Done!

What this does is trigger the reload function of the recaptcha once the page is fully loaded (and all fields have been filled), which you discovered solves the problem. I admit somewhat lame, but appears to work well. An added benefit is that the reload sets focus to the captcha field. Hope it'll do.

Cheers,
Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks for posting this nice solution, I think the best is to provide some skip list of fields for the republish, I will add this to the next release!

Regards
Max