Captcha using TTF & GD

[Woodymon]

Woody!
Certainly it works with Zen Lightbox. And with all other normal mods. :)
That with IH2 I do not know. I didn't try, didn't install, didn't look and didn't touch this .

Thanks for the info. I will install IH2 on the shop where captcha is working, to test. Will report back.

Woody

[a_berezin]

Woody!
You use any SEFU module?

[Woodymon]

Woody!
You use any SEFU module?

No. Although I have been thinking about implementing in the future.

[a_berezin]

Woody!
Can you give me a fuul list of using contributions? Except ih2.

[KTNaturals]

SQL! Oh Nooooo!

Though I've done inserts in Admin. I've never hand added/deleted anything.

Any clues as to entries to remove and procedure?

I was hoping someone else would chime in as I have no SQL experience, so if you decide to do what I did, do so at your own risk.

First, go into phpMyAdmin and back up your DB.

If you look at the captcha.sql file, you can see that you can undo each statement. So, in phpMyAdmin, open your zen databbase. Then go into configuration_group and delete CAPTCHA Validation. Next, go into configuration_group_id and delete a field that has configuration_key value of "ACCOUNT_VALIDATION." Then go to the next statement and delete the next one (I think I sorted the configuration_key field to make it easy to find these entries).

When you get to the DROP TABLE... part, I ran that same command.

Hope this makes sense.

[kennyoz]

Hi KennyOz,
Thank for the decision!

Fixed.

Hi a_berezin,
No worries mate.
I really appreciate your contributions, fantastic work. Keep it up.

[Jeffey]

Hi KTNaturals!
Sorry for the delay and thanks for taking the time.

I'm guessing I had a question because it doesn't appear that I have a "configuration_group_id", at least not in the same area as "configuration_group " which had previously found (along with the "CAPTCHA Validation" field.

Still worried since you mention two fields in "configuration_group_id" to delete. My Captcha (the one that just works with log in) is working.

Almost all my mods have gone super smoothly with no issues but this one has me a little bugged since it is fairly involved in terms of files and with my near zero experience my normal method of back tracking after a problem could easily get confused.

I suppose I will eventually have to take the leap and hope that it will work once I delete the one field found and hope that full functionality comes with this improved Captcha.

Hey! you've got more PHP, etc. under your belt than me! Like you, I'm learning all of the involved software/languages as I go. Fortunately a lot of it is intuitive or, in Zen's case, easy.

Any other thought always appreciated and thanks again for jumping in.

[Jeffey]

Ok, I'm back.

I have installed the new mod CAPTCHA as discussed and though it appears others have similar problems I am unable to uncover the solution in the postings.

Problem is that though the image (letters) and box for CAPTCHA showed the first time I went to contact_us they no longer show either there or at login. The validation box shows as does the redraw button but when you redraw the outline of the box shows briefly with the generic image icon but does not load and outline disappears again.

The only thing I can think is my previous issue with not finding a particular field (think that's what you call it) in SQL database. See my procedure:

I did removed CAPTCHA Validation from configuration_group but I did not have a configuration_group_id even though the old CAPTCHA was working.

Before installing this new version I reloaded the contact page and this appeared at bottom:'
Files not overwritten yet but when reloaded login this appeared at bottom (i've replaced my SQL database name):

1146 Table 'mytablename'.TABLE_ANTI_ROBOT_REGISTRATION' doesn't exist
in:
[DELETE FROM TABLE_ANTI_ROBOT_REGISTRATION WHERE timestamp < '1176050552' OR session_id = '55e5ca3e81faa0bf28215325ec74ca7e']

which I assumed was a call from one of the files I had yet to replace with new CAPTCHA versions. ?

CAPTCHA option did not show in Zen Admin which convinced me I had removed previous version.

Installed all new CAPTCHA files (except French language if that matters) and ran SQL patch in Admin (I have results if needed but no errors) and CAPTCHA options showed once again in Admin.

I have tried changing picture types in Admin already and same result of the image box not drawing.

Again, "Enable Picture" redraw button and "Validation Code" block do show properly just not letter/image box.

All help appreciated!!

[Jeffey]

One last thing to help solve.

I did run the captcha_test and the box and default image icon (not letters) shows only there as well. Only difference is that the box and icon show.

[Jeffey]

Maybe this is it.

There is a "anti_robotreg" table in SQL, do I delete this? Appears to have been created with old CAPTCHA but don't want to break anything.

I'll shut up and wait now!