Testimonial Manager Support Thread

[Happyworker]

Perfect, thanks :)

[sunflowertami]

Hi Clyde,

Thanks for this mod which I find very useful in my website. My problem is I'm getting a lot of spam through this mod and would like to require CAPTCHA to prevent this. I know you have advised to look at the CAPTCHA mod and copy it to the testimonial code.

I got as far as determining that the files affected would be tpl_testimonials_add_default.php and header_php.php under testimonials pages but I am not confident enough that I know where exactly to insert the code especially on the header_php.php which even after looking at the contact page I couldn't figure out where to put the code.

Would you be kind enough to let me know where exactly to enter it? Thank you so much in advance!!!

Take a look at the Captcha mod in the downloads section.

You should be able to modify the testimonial mod by following the way that mod is set up.

[clydejones]

Hi Clyde,

Thanks for this mod which I find very useful in my website. My problem is I'm getting a lot of spam through this mod and would like to require CAPTCHA to prevent this. I know you have advised to look at the CAPTCHA mod and copy it to the testimonial code.

I got as far as determining that the files affected would be tpl_testimonials_add_default.php and header_php.php under testimonials pages but I am not confident enough that I know where exactly to insert the code especially on the header_php.php which even after looking at the contact page I couldn't figure out where to put the code.

Would you be kind enough to let me know where exactly to enter it? Thank you so much in advance!!!

This should help.

Make sure you have the captcha mod installed.

unzip the file.
rename the YOUR_TEMPLATE folder (includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE) to match the name of your custom template.

Upload the entire includes folder to your server.

Attachment 4888

[sunflowertami]

HI Clyde,

Thank you so much for working on this. I have installed the captcha mod, and made sure it worked. Renamed the folder in your file to my template. However I see no captcha on the testimonial page. I see it on the others where I have captcha working like contact us page but nothing comes up on the testimonial page. What did I do wrong?

Tami

This should help.

Make sure you have the captcha mod installed.

unzip the file.
rename the YOUR_TEMPLATE folder (includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE) to match the name of your custom template.

Upload the entire includes folder to your server.

Attachment 4888

[sunflowertami]

Hi Clyde,

Could this have something to do with configuration? On the captcha mod, there is a configuration option where you can trigger the captcha to true or false. The option for testimonial manager does not appear on the configuration though only those in the original mod appears e.g contact us, tell a friend etc. I think there maybe another file to add to make this work?

HI Clyde,

Thank you so much for working on this. I have installed the captcha mod, and made sure it worked. Renamed the folder in your file to my template. However I see no captcha on the testimonial page. I see it on the others where I have captcha working like contact us page but nothing comes up on the testimonial page. What did I do wrong?

Tami

[clydejones]

Hi Clyde,

Could this have something to do with configuration? On the captcha mod, there is a configuration option where you can trigger the captcha to true or false. The option for testimonial manager does not appear on the configuration though only those in the original mod appears e.g contact us, tell a friend etc. I think there maybe another file to add to make this work?

Try this.

Just unzip the file and upload the entire includes folder to your server.

Attachment 4890

[sunflowertami]

Yippee!! that worked!

Try this.

Just unzip the file and upload the entire includes folder to your server.

Attachment 4890

[clydejones]

Yippee!! that worked!

Glad it got sorted.

[daneh]

Clyde,
I have been getting quite a bit of bogus spam accounts generated through what looks like the testimonial manager. Every instance shows they where at

 	http://mistkits.com/index.php?main_page=testimonials_add&zenid=???????????????????????????

(Zen ID removed).

Every time it happens I modify my .htaccess file to send them to a site that no man on earth should ever visit...LOL

I have a captcha, but I am sure it is not the one you referenced in an earlier post. I don't have the captcha with ttf & gd, I have the captcha anti robot registration. should I remove that one, replace it with the one you recommended, and then use the zip you provided, or do you thing your zip will work with what I have?

Thanks for the great contrib!

[clydejones]

Clyde,
I have been getting quite a bit of bogus spam accounts generated through what looks like the testimonial manager. Every instance shows they where at

 	http://mistkits.com/index.php?main_page=testimonials_add&zenid=???????????????????????????

(Zen ID removed).

Every time it happens I modify my .htaccess file to send them to a site that no man on earth should ever visit...LOL

I have a captcha, but I am sure it is not the one you referenced in an earlier post. I don't have the captcha with ttf & gd, I have the captcha anti robot registration. should I remove that one, replace it with the one you recommended, and then use the zip you provided, or do you thing your zip will work with what I have?

Thanks for the great contrib!

captcha using ttf & gd works with several forms (by default) including the Contact Us page, the Create Account, the Tell a Friend form and a couple of others. The code also makes it easier to modify additional forms to work with it.

captcha anti robot registration as far as I can tell only works on the Create Account page.

So, I'll let you decide which one you want to use.

or do you thing your zip will work with what I have?

No the fixes I've provided will not work with captcha anti robot registration