Support Thread for Google reCAPTCHA plugin

[David Allen]

We are currently having our Zencart version being updated from 1.3.9 to 1.5 ,we have the Captcha succesfully integrated to our older version 1.3.9 of Zencart however our developer having a difficulty to install this to the new 1.5 version because of the GD and Imagemagick are not installed ,also she said we are having a PHP depraceted code issue and our hosting Godaddy not support this
Can you please suggest the way forward how this can be solved?

Are you sure you are using my Google reCAPTCHA plugin? Because it doesn't use GD or Imagemagick.

[zilog357]

Hello David. This is very kind of you for sharing this contribution of yours. I have a simple question, I am using zencart v1.3.8a and would like to know if there is any possibility to put the reCaptcha in the admin login page. I think that would help in protecting against robotic brute-force attempts. I can not move to ZC 1.5 for now, as I have done many core edits.

Thank you in advance.

[David Allen]

[QUOTE=zilog357;1157983]I am using zencart v1.3.8a and would like to know if there is any possibility to put the reCaptcha in the admin login page.
</QUOTE]
Zilog - it should be possible to include it on the admin login page. You'd have to include the files in the corresponding admin folders and add the appropriate entries to login.php.
I'm interested as to why you are getting brute force attempts? You did rename your admin directory didn't you??

I think that would help in protecting against robotic brute-force attempts. I can not move to ZC 1.5 for now, as I have done many core edits.

I think that as you are using such an old version the possibility of robotic brute-force attempts is much less than the gaping security holes that are known to exist in those older versions on Zen.
I'd recommend upgrading asap

[David Allen]

I received a private message asking for help, so rather than replying to that I thought I'd post the question here so other can benefit as well

Hi David,

I was wondering if you could help me. I have installed your Google ReCaptcha mod and changed the look to 'Clean' and stuck it in a Div to centre it and it all works very well, what I am trying to do though is add this same code to 'Ask a Question' mod by Scott Wilson www.thatsoftwareguy.com

I can get it to look look exactly the same as on the other pages, however whether I enter the ReCaptcha code or not the form gets submitted. I don't get the message telling me I haven't filled this part of the form in. Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for a great mod.

I think the questioner is using v1.39h.

If you look at the ReadMe instructions for pre 1.51 versions. In section 4A are the changes for /includes/modules/pages/contact_us/header_php.php
You need to apply those same changes to /includes/modules/pages/ask_a_question/header_php.php (the line numbers will be different, look around line 41)

Hope this helps
Regards

[Rjac]

Hi,

I'm actually using v1.5.1. this is a new install and not an upgrade from a previous version. The only other mods I have installed before this one were:

'Ashley Pink' template
'Ask a Question' Mod

Regards,

Robert.

I received a private message asking for help, so rather than replying to that I thought I'd post the question here so other can benefit as well


I think the questioner is using v1.39h.

If you look at the ReadMe instructions for pre 1.51 versions. In section 4A are the changes for /includes/modules/pages/contact_us/header_php.php
You need to apply those same changes to /includes/modules/pages/ask_a_question/header_php.php (the line numbers will be different, look around line 41)

Hope this helps
Regards

[David Allen]

Hi,

I'm actually using v1.5.1. this is a new install and not an upgrade from a previous version. The only other mods I have installed before this one were:

'Ashley Pink' template
'Ask a Question' Mod

Regards,

Robert.

Hi Robert
I had a look on the plugins and only found Ask a Question for the 1.39 version. So assumed you were using that - sorry.

Anyway, as the Ask a Question appears to be based on 1.39 code, the advice I gave above still stands. Use the 4A instructions on the ask a question header_php.php

Regards
David