Anti Spam - Verification Image doesn't want to display

Hi,

I have installed Chronoforms for J1.5 (ChronoForms_V3.1_RC4.11.zip) on Joomla 1.5.2 and 1.5.9 and on both the Anti Spam Image Verification doesn't want to display. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong😟

I had an older Chronoform version installed on 1.5.2 and the Anti Spam didn't work there either, thus I have installed the latest version I could get on both 1.5.2 & 1.5.9 - but it still doesn't want to work.

The form send fine - everything is working fine except for the Anti Spam Part. I have the following form:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td align="right">Name</td><td><input type="text" name="contact" id="contact" value="" class="input"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">E-mail</td><td><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" class="input"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Phone</td><td><input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" value="" class="input"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Subject</td><td><input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" value="" class="input"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Message</td><td><textarea name="message" id="message" class="input" cols="20" rows="10"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td><td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="SUBMIT" class="submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Please help! :-D

Hi jenix,

You need to include {imageverification} in your form html where you want the Image Verification code to appear.

Bob

Ah Great,

Bob it worked 😶

In my older version (Previous Chronoform version on Joomla 1.5.2) I'm getting the following error when I submit the form when the Anti Spam option was set to yes:

Fatal error: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /components/com_chronocontact/chronocontact.php on line 200

On my Joomla 1.5.2 with the newer version I find no error when submitting the form.

Do you know what might cause the error? Otherwise i will just switch to the newer version.

Thank you so much!🙂

Hi jenix,

Switch to the newer version. I'm not sure of the cause but I suspect this is a permissions issue possibly connected to GZip compression - but I could be compeletly wrong!

Bob

PS Joomla is now at 1.5.10 too - so you are a few security fixes behind.

Hi there,

I got the same problem, I have the up-to-date version of Joomla and chronoform but the PHP version is 5.1.6. so just wonder if this function only works with PHP 5.2 or above? or does it have any particular GD version? here is my hosting server info:

PHP Built on: Linux host.netguru.co.nz 2.6.18-4-xen-686 #1 SMP Thu May 10 03:24:35 UTC 2007 i686
Database Version: 5.0.27
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.1.6
Web Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Fedora)

GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.2.1
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled
XBM Support enabled

Hi acy277,

What happens when you browse to http://yourdomain.com/components/com_chronocontact/chrono_verification.php

Bob

Hi,

it said the image http://mydomain.com/components/com_chronocontact/chrono_verification.php cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

Hi Bob and Max,

have you guys checked out what problem of my website is?

Thank you very much

Hi acy277,

Err the problem is that the image can't be displayed because it contains errors . . .

You haven't given us much else to go on. A link to the site? Which version of ChronoForms & Joomla you are using? Entries from your server log?

One ChronoForms RC 3.0? had a faulty chrono_verification.php file. Otherwise these problems are usually due to folder permissions.

Bob

Hi Bob,

I have updated the chronoform verstion to 3.1 RC 4.11 and the problem fixed. Thank you very much