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CAPTCHA Feature

Author: Eileen Wilde Reference Number: AA-00162 Views: 13709 Last Updated: 01/13/2011 05:52 AM

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CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used to determine whether or not the user is a human. CAPTCHA requires that the user type the letters of a distorted image, with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen. To add it to your page you need to:

create field to enter CAPTCHA

add CAPTCHA picture using this code:

then point in the config.php file in your form configuration section (not in general settings, this action is set individually for each form):

captcha_field = mycaptcha

You can configure CAPTCHA appearance in the global section of the config.php file.

captcha_background = yellow - sets background color of CAPTCHA image.
captcha_font_color = #0f0f0f - sets font color of CAPTCHA image.
captcha_font = times - sets font to use on CAPTCHA image.

You can set color by its name, or its hex number with leading #. Supported color names:

Black, Maroon, Green, Navy, Silver, Red, Lime, Blue, Gray, Purple, Olive, Teal, White, Fuchsia, Yellow, Aqua.

Supported fonts:

antiqua, baskerville, batang, bookman, calisto, cambria, centaur, century, chaparral, constantia, footlight, garamond, georgia, goudy_old, kozuka, lucida, minion

You can put button on your page to reload CAPTCHA without reloading the whole page, to do that you need to add this code nead CAPTCHA image:

Where ../fpp/captcha.img.php is the path to the captcha.img.php file.

Note:

CAPTCHA is only available in the following licenses: Business, World Wide, ISP.