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Hey, this is a handy component. I was just looking for this.

Here are a few things i noticed:

on line 14 of captcha.php:
$imagesPath = realpath(VENDORS . 'phpcaptcha').'/fonts/';

if your vendors path is inside your app directory, you need something like this:

$imagesPath = APP . 'vendors' . DS . 'phpcaptcha'.'/fonts/';


also, for the validation, i changed:

function validateCaptcha($fieldName, $params){
        $caseInsensitive = true;

to :

function validateCaptcha($fieldName, $caseInsensitive = true){

since the $params var is not used in the function, and it's handy to have the case sensitivity as a parameter.

Also, for anyone using this who is also using sessions (either Cake's or your own), be sure to look at the vendor file php-captcha.inc and comment out line 46, where the script calls session_start() , or you will definitely experience some session problems.

Thanks for the work, Spout.

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i tried in windows and linux, and i couldn't get it to work, gives me an 'X' image on IE and blank on FF.

when i am trying to debug by accesing directly to the url /users/captcha_image says that the view is missing.

what should i do?

i tried in windows and linux, and i couldn't get it to work, gives me an 'X' image on IE and blank on FF.

when i am trying to debug by accesing directly to the url /users/captcha_image says that the view is missing.

what should i do?


i shold recompile my php to support gd libraries, and be carefull with the imagesPath directory...

very great component! thanks Spout.

i realize that after debug step by step the vendor captcha php.

Have anybody got solution.
Thank!!

Ok, i was able to make this work.

Although, i am a bit clueless. On how will i add an error message on the template itself. Here are sample of my codes.

Controller Class:

<?php 
...
if (empty($this->data))
{
    $this->render();
}
else
{

    if ($this->Email->save($this->data))
    {
    if ($this->Captcha->check($this->data['Email']['userCode'])) { 
        
    // Flash that it has been sent
    $this->flash('Your email has been sent.','/emails');
            
    }
        
    }
    else
    {
        $this->set('errorMessage', 'Please correct errors below.');
        $this->render();
    }

}
...
?>
I was able to validate the usual fields i added:

View Template:


...
<label>Name:</label>
<?php echo $html->input('Email/name', array('class' => 'input', 'style' => 'width: 200px;')); ?>
<?php echo $html->tagErrorMsg('Email/name', 'Name is required.'); ?>
<label>Message:</label>
<?php echo $html->textarea('Email/message', array('rows'=>'10', 'cols'=>'40')); ?>
<?php echo $html->tagErrorMsg('Email/message', 'Message is required.'); ?>

<label>Captcha:</label>
<?php echo $html->input('Email/userCode', array('class' => 'input', 'style' => 'width: 200px;')); ?>
<?php echo $html->tagErrorMsg('Email/userCode', 'Captcha is required.'); ?>
...


which is name and message and captcha (if its empty only).

But to show that what you typed is wrong, i don't know what to do.

Please help!

This is what I had to do to get Captcha component working with validator (CakePHP 1.2). It is quiet easy but I had some troubles to understand the new validation process. Hope it will help somebody else.

Model Class:

<?php 

    $validate = array(
        'captcha' => array (
            'validateCaptcha' => array (
                'rule' => 'validateCaptcha',
                'message' => 'Your captcha error message'
            )
        )
    );

    function validateCaptcha($check) {
        if (!defined('CAPTCHA_SESSION_ID')) {
            define('CAPTCHA_SESSION_ID', 'php_captcha');
        }

        if (!empty ($_SESSION[CAPTCHA_SESSION_ID]) && $check == $_SESSION[CAPTCHA_SESSION_ID]) {
            unset ($_SESSION[CAPTCHA_SESSION_ID]);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
?>

Note that the field $validate has been declared in my child model class called "Post" and the method validateCaptcha is in the parent AppModel class.

My captcha validation is working properly in FF,but the Reload Image link is not working in the internet explorer.

Can any body suggest me actualy where i am wrong

Waiting for a reply

I tried it on Windows using CakePHP 1.2alpha and PHP 5. It's giving me an "X" image on IE and FF. I've read the post by Manuel Dorado but my gd library is already working.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

also trying to get it work on 1.2.
seems like the response headers are already sent and php-captcha.inc.php kannt set the mime-type header to image/jpg

hehe

der was an space after my closing ?> tag in captcha.php which caused the headers to be send...

:-)

Thanks for the submission, I had captcha working within minutes with no trouble at all!

p.s. it seems I'm not able to rate anything on Bakery, as soon as this issue is fixed I'll give it a 5 :-)

hi ! first thanks for this great component.
phpcaptcha works fine on mine server as standalone. so all libs a working properly.

if i want to use it within my controller, i just got an "broken-image" in IE or the url in Firefox.
when viewing the source i noticed, that there are html-elements.. looks like some parts of my layout...
maybe this causes the failure?

i got absolutely no idea why my layout is used.
even a

Controller Class:

<?php 
    function captcha_image()
    {    
        $this->layout = FALSE;
        $this->Captcha->image();
    }
?>

won't work.. any ideas on that?

i just noticed that before output, starts, there are
THREE BLANK SPACES and i can't explain where they are from. even with no layout - these spaces are there..

but guess what: they are on every page generated within cakephp. on every site 3 blank spaces at the beginning. anyone has an idea which scripts generates them? maybe because of them already html output has been startet and the image could be displayed.

thx in advance for every help ( if i get some ^^ )

I'm not seeing where I can download this component, something wrong with the bakery?

Hi, I see that many people have problems with phpcaptcha working on cakephp 1.2 so I paste here version which runs perfectly:

Component Class:

<?php 
App::import('Vendor','PhpCaptcha' ,array('file'=>'phpcaptcha/php-captcha.php'));
        
class CaptchaComponent extends Object
{
    var $controller;
 
    function startup( &$controller ) {
        $this->controller = &$controller;
    }

    function image(){
        
        $imagesPath = APP . 'vendors' . DS . 'phpcaptcha'.'/fonts/';
        
        $aFonts = array(
            $imagesPath.'VeraBd.ttf',
            $imagesPath.'VeraIt.ttf',
            $imagesPath.'Vera.ttf'
        );
        
        $oVisualCaptcha = new PhpCaptcha($aFonts, 200, 60);
        
        $oVisualCaptcha->UseColour(true);
        //$oVisualCaptcha->SetOwnerText('Source: '.FULL_BASE_URL);
        //$oVisualCaptcha->SetNumChars(6);
        $oVisualCaptcha->Create();
    }
    
    function audio(){
        $oAudioCaptcha = new AudioPhpCaptcha('/usr/bin/flite', '/tmp/');
        $oAudioCaptcha->Create();
    }
    
    function check($userCode, $caseInsensitive = true){
        if ($caseInsensitive) {
            $userCode = strtoupper($userCode);
        }
        
        if (!empty($_SESSION[CAPTCHA_SESSION_ID]) && $userCode == $_SESSION[CAPTCHA_SESSION_ID]) {
            // clear to prevent re-use
            unset($_SESSION[CAPTCHA_SESSION_ID]);
            
            return true;
        }
        else return false;
        
    }
}
?>

This is action which renders captcha:


  function captcha_image()
  {
    Configure::write('debug',0);
    $this->layout = null;  
    $this->Captcha2->image();
    $this->render();
  }