CAPTCHA spam protection add ons not working on my ZC 1.3.8a

[wcironsales]

Mods sure get frustrating and waste a lot of time researching and reading all the forums and documents. I hope this can help you regarding CAPTCHA and your store. I find that the more messages in a forum the more problems users are having with the mods.

As we know that our stores need SPAM protection. I would think that CAPTCHA would be an active mod development here with the current software version at all times.

Here are my findings today 3/12/2010 regarding CAPTCHA add on mods using Zen-Cart 1.3.8a

Be careful not all 1.3.8 mods will work with 1.3.8a, the zen-cart.com mods download page does not differentiate versions with 1.3.8(a).

I had near success using this and would recommend it currently for 1.3.8a with it's SUBJECT limitation. captcha-number-subject-combo-in-one-1.0 version 1.0. This mod was not made for 1.3.8a only 1.3.8 and the author says it was made 2 years ago by another developer that is no longer with the company. 2 Issues I found with this mod is that it does not place the SUBJECT in the email that is sent to the store owner. And you must place fonts/ folder in the root folder and not in the includes/ folder that it says in the readme file. Other than that you must edit only 2 core file, depening other mods you have installed. I would like to see an expert like YOU to get this mod working for the Zen-Cart community, please it seems to be complete but the SUBJECT not being placed in the email being sent to the store owner. The Forum has 5 post as today in one thread, there are some other treads with simular fonts/ folder and subject topics.

Reading the forums shows that CAPTCHA using TTF & GD version 2.9 is not working for users and the author is not responding to the issues in the forum. It appears to me that the author may have deleted their account here or change their name. The forum has 524 post regarding this mod as of this message.

Another mod is Contact reCAPTCHA version 1.0 the users want to uninstall it. New version uploaded 1.1 on 3/4/2010 there has been no forum activity about it, today this new uploaded mod is 8 days old. This mod is apparently only for the Contact Us page. The Forum has 75 post as of this message.