CAPTCHA Anti-Robot Mod

JTheed:

Look back up 3 to 4 messages.

Yeah, I just found that out on my own. :) I went ahead and created my test user account and it said I'd entered an invalid captcha code, then there it was! The trouble is, it still does the same thing every time which might annoy potential customers and make them go away. I want the validation code portion of the registration screen to always be visible, not just appear as previously-hidden, required field after someone's already tried to register. Any ideas how?

Switch your login screen, to Split Screen. Located in Admin, Configuration, Layout Settings, Use split-login page (set to TRUE). With this setting, when someone clicks to create account from the split-login screen, the validation code will show at the bottom of the following screen, and they will be required to enter the verification code to create account.

Does this help to answer your question?

Ah, there we are! Funny, my Zen Cart installation used to be set to split screen but it got changed somehow, Thanks a million!

JayMot:

Ah, there we are! Funny, my Zen Cart installation used to be set to split screen but it got changed somehow, Thanks a million!

Also, if you had modified your file as it said in that previous message that you found on your own, you would also see it at the Non-Split screen.

My captcha doesn't work for some reason. It does show where it supposed to be and seems to be ok, but it doesn't actually do anything. You can leave the validation code box empty or write anything into it and the message still gets delivered from Contact us -page (same thing on Create account -page and I don't use Tell a friend -option).

If you don't manage to send the message for some other reason, for example if you leave the email box empty, then also catpha error will appear if needed.

So when email box is empty and validation code box is also empty or code is incorrect, two errors is displayed:
"You have entered an incomplete or incorrect validation (CAPTCHA) code."
"Sorry, my system does not understand your email address. Please try again."

And if validation code is correct, only the email error is displayed.

So captcha seems to work in the way that it understands whether the code is correct or not, but it just doesn't stop the procedure in incorrect case and message gets delivered anyway.

Does anyone have a clue what could be the problem?

Finezzer:

My captcha doesn't work for some reason. It does show where it supposed to be and seems to be ok, but it doesn't actually do anything. You can leave the validation code box empty or write anything into it and the message still gets delivered from Contact us -page (same thing on Create account -page and I don't use Tell a friend -option).

If you don't manage to send the message for some other reason, for example if you leave the email box empty, then also catpha error will appear if needed.

So when email box is empty and validation code box is also empty or code is incorrect, two errors is displayed:
"You have entered an incomplete or incorrect validation (CAPTCHA) code."
"Sorry, my system does not understand your email address. Please try again."

And if validation code is correct, only the email error is displayed.

So captcha seems to work in the way that it understands whether the code is correct or not, but it just doesn't stop the procedure in incorrect case and message gets delivered anyway.

Does anyone have a clue what could be the problem?

Did you just copy the files or merge them in? If you just copied them in, then possibly one did not get copied. best to rename the originals and them copy the new ones in and when it works, you can remove the renamed ones. If you merged them, you missed some of the code.

Did you rename the YOUR_TEMPLATE folders under modules and templates to the name of the template you are using?

Lastly, did you go into the Admin/Configuration/Captcha page and turn them on?

I just tried what you were saying on my site which is running 1.3.9f and it works as advertised.

JTheed:

Did you just copy the files or merge them in? If you just copied them in, then possibly one did not get copied. best to rename the originals and them copy the new ones in and when it works, you can remove the renamed ones. If you merged them, you missed some of the code.

Did you rename the YOUR_TEMPLATE folders under modules and templates to the name of the template you are using?

Lastly, did you go into the Admin/Configuration/Captcha page and turn them on?

I just tried what you were saying on my site which is running 1.3.9f and it works as advertised.

Thanks JTheed, but no matter what I enter I get "You did not enter the validation code correctly. Please, try again" https://www.marinemagik.com. please give it a look see. Thanks

JTheed:

Did you just copy the files or merge them in? If you just copied them in, then possibly one did not get copied. best to rename the originals and them copy the new ones in and when it works, you can remove the renamed ones. If you merged them, you missed some of the code.

Did you rename the YOUR_TEMPLATE folders under modules and templates to the name of the template you are using?

Lastly, did you go into the Admin/Configuration/Captcha page and turn them on?

I just tried what you were saying on my site which is running 1.3.9f and it works as advertised.

gearheadniko:

Thanks JTheed, but no matter what I enter I get "You did not enter the validation code correctly. Please, try again" https://www.marinemagik.com. please give it a look see. Thanks

Update: The Tell a Friend works, Contact us works, but no go on Create an Account

gearheadniko:

Update: The Tell a Friend works, Contact us works, but no go on Create an Account

Ok, once again. Make sure you have renamed BOTH folders from YOUR_TEMPLATE in the modules and templates folder to whatever the name of your template is. If no custom template, it would be classic.

Rename your modules/pages/create_account/header_php.php to something else and then copy the file over again.

I know it works as you can try it on my system at My Mods Site and you will see that it does.

Thanks for the response. I have no doubt that it works fine, I just can't seem to get it to work for me. I did as you said above but still no go, same message. I really appreciate your effort here.
Niko

gearheadniko:

Thanks for the response. I have no doubt that it works fine, I just can't seem to get it to work for me. I did as you said above but still no go, same message. I really appreciate your effort here.
Niko

Is it possible that you have more than one template and it's not getting into the correct one?

Also I only found one folder to rename not two, I got includes\templates\custom_template which one did I miss?

gearheadniko:

Also I only found one folder to rename not two, I got includes\templates\custom_template which one did I miss?

There should be one under includes/modules/YOUR_TEMPLATE

If not, then download the latest one from My Mods Site and update your files with that one.

Nope not in my download

That did it you are a great help. Thank you for giving so much of your time.
Best regards
Niko

Problems solved!

Create account -page didn't work because the captcha version I downloaded from Zen Cart's "Free software add ons" didn't mention about that other YOUR_TEMPLATE folder. So I downloaded the one from JTheed's "My mods site", followed its instructions and captcha started to work just fine.

The problem with contact us -page was that I had done one file merge wrong.

Thanks for your help, JTheed!

I just installed the latest version, 08/11/2010.
The create an account page works fine.
But the tell a friend and contact pages are allowing me to proceed through even though I entered an invalid captcha verification code.

Has anyone experienced this? any suggestions?

Finezzer:

The problem with contact us -page was that I had done one file merge wrong.

I encounter same issue. Which file merge had you done wrong which caused the problem with contact us -page?

Amanda

Hello,

I see two "CAPTCHA Validation" under Configuration. When I click the second one, it's blank. How do I remove the second link from the menu? Thank you.

nycxkkoma:

Hello,

I see two "CAPTCHA Validation" under Configuration. When I click the second one, it's blank. How do I remove the second link from the menu? Thank you.

You probably have 2 entries in your database configuration_group table. You will have to edit your database and find the 2nd CAPTCHA Validation entry and delete it.

To get the correct one, note down the configuration_group_id of each one and then search that id in the configuration group. The one that is there is the one you want to keep.