Support Thread for Google reCAPTCHA plugin

[dbltoe]

anything done in pieces winds up well in pieces

Load the entire template of your choice clone it and then change it to whatever you wanted to look like

[gothstone]

zc 1.5.8a, php 8.1.24, recaptcha 3.6a
While its working fine, when the contact us page is loaded it throws this error:

17-Oct-2023 00:37:46 America/Chicago] Request URI: /contact_us?action=send, IP address: 82.147.85.78, Language id 1
#0 /includes/classes/observers/class.google_recaptcha.php(40): zen_debug_error_handler()
#1 /includes/classes/traits/NotifierManager.php(87): google_recaptcha->update()
#2 /includes/modules/pages/contact_us/header_php.php(31): base->notify()
#3 /index.php(35): require('/home/pcs/publi...')
--> PHP Warning: Undefined array key "g-recaptcha-response" in /includes/classes/observers/class.google_recaptcha.php on line 40.

Oddly the create account page does NOT do this.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[pilou2]

I checked and found no problem here. But in my shop, code for reCAPTCHA in contact page is placed before the

</fieldset>

tag instead of after as shown in plugin sample file.
I did install this pugin a while ago. I can't remember exactly, but only trouble I had where comming from this code insertion point.

[pilou2]

Although I use Zen Cart 1.5.8a and PHP 8.1.24 like you I just realized I was using reCAPTCHA v3.7 from Torvista (on GitHub) and files are completly different. Please ignore my precedent post.

[gothstone]

This has gone away without any other changes, so it must have been related to my screwed up DB having nulls where they shouldn't be everywhere. Sorry!

[vandiermen]

I installed Google reCAPTCHA Version: 3.6a on zencart 1.5.0 https://gmstationery.com.au/. The contract or create account page displays the reCAPTCHA field but form can be submitted without clicking it.

Template is called bootstrap. I placed the reCAPTCHA under the CUAS field

[lat9]

I installed Google reCAPTCHA Version: 3.6a on zencart 1.5.0 https://gmstationery.com.au/. The contract or create account page displays the reCAPTCHA field but form can be submitted without clicking it.

Template is called bootstrap. I placed the reCAPTCHA under the CUAS field

Did you edit the /includes/functions/extra_functions/functions_google_recaptcha.php to indicate that the checking should occur on those pages?

The default values are 'false', set the pages you're interested in to 'true' (and don't forget the quotes):

//set to true for the pages on which you wish to enable reCaptcha (don't forget to add the code snippet to the template!)
define('GOOGLE_RECAPCHTA_ASK_QUESTION', 'false');
define('GOOGLE_RECAPCHTA_CONTACT_US', 'false');
define('GOOGLE_RECAPCHTA_CREATE_ACCOUNT', 'false');
define('GOOGLE_RECAPCHTA_REVIEWS', 'false');
define('GOOGLE_RECAPCHTA_BISN', 'false'); //Back In Stock Notification Plugin: https://github.com/torvista/Zen_Cart-Back_in_Stock_Notifications 

[shags38]

v1.5.7b PHP7.3 OPC installed (among others)

README update suggestion

A customer encountered issues trying to create an account in that the Google reCAPTCHA wasn't showing on the page hence just the warning "prove you are not a robot".

I re-checked my istallation of the latest version of this plugin. I eventually solved the issue by adding the required code to an OPC template includes/templates/template_default/tpl_create_account_register.php

This is not mentioned in the README for the plugin, so I continued to tear my hair out trying and retrying to follow the README verbatim -so for others it may present the same issue - hence the suggestion to maybe update the README to include the above.

cheers, Mike

[torvista]

This is not mentioned in the README for the plugin, so I continued to tear my hair out trying and retrying to follow the README verbatim -so for others it may present the same issue - hence the suggestion to maybe update the README to include the above.

Feel free to go ahead and add your hard-earned knowledge (via the GitHub repository) to the readme, the code is open source for a reason.

[zamzom]

Scott had already asked this but no-one replied.
I think it is crutial to add a reCaptcha to checkout_process page, as we are subject to many CC try attempts by bots.
Does anyone know how to do this properly?

This plugin is really great. Previously bots were creating a ton of garbage accounts and this has completely stopped that.

Unfortunately I now have a bot testing out credit card numbers on my Zen Cart sites which is resulting in high credit card fees for all the authorization attempts. The bot is creating a Zen Cart account, I assume the human is doing that step to get through the reCAPTCHA, and then the bot is using that one account to complete the checkout process and try to charge a credit card. And doing this many many times.

Would it be possible to add a reCAPTCHA to some part of the checkout process so we can be sure it is a human checking out and not a bot? This functionality would likely be useful for other users as well who may be experiencing this type of problem, it seems to be becoming more common. For example adding a reCAPTCHA on the checkout_shipping or checkout_payment pages.

I tried to add a reCAPTCHA to checkout_shipping by editing these pages,

includes/classes/observers/auto.non_captcha_observer.php
includes/classes/observers/class.google_recaptcha.php
includes/modules/pages/checkout_shipping/header_php.php
includes/templates/MY_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_checkout_shipping_default.php

The reCAPTCHA is displayed on the shipping page but the user isn't being required to select it so I obviously am doing something wrong. All of the pages above seemed straightforward to edit except for checkout_shipping/header_php.php -- I'm unsure about the change I made there. I am running the current version of Zen Cart. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Scott