tutorial: stop spam with a contact form captcha

[grantglendinnin]

The thread is 4 pages long with lots of "it doesn't work" etc and I'm not sure what to do now.

Had it running perfectly on our site since v8, which has upgraded to 9.0.0 to 9.0.1 to 9.0.3 with no issues and no amendments needed to the script.

Those who've said "it doesn't work" obviously didn't follow the instructions properly

[NormanRouxel]

Any chance some other pro programmer could put it all together in a single post?

Have a go and you should be able to do it for yourself. Please post the results so others can benefit. I see from your signature links that you're a full service web-design company, so it shouldn't be too hard.

[pixelhaus]

I've used FormToEmail.php for several years for static sites, but have just downloaded the latest version of it which has 'recaptcha' built into it. Really easy to integrate into Actinic to replace the standard form.
Looks like:
http://www.icehaus.co.uk/acatalog/contact_us.php

and comes from: http://formtoemail.com/
it's about £25 for a multi URL license.

[Runner]

I've just tried to implement this, but the CAPTCHA images are not showing on the form page.

I have checked the image folder is in the root on the server.

Can anyone see what's wrong?

Get to the Contact Us form from here: http://www.competitiveheatingsupplie...alog/shop.html

Edit: I've just noticed a script error on this page but I don't know where to find it
Script error at line 285: object expected

I realised that the jcap I downloaded from http://www.archreality.com/jcap/ needed some mods. Now done the images are appearing but I get this when I send the form:
The requested URL /cgi-bin/mf000001.plxpy was not found on this server

Edit: Ok, found that I did not make all reqired changes in jcap.js

Seems to work ok now. if someone coould please test on my site, url above.

I will now try to write a post detailing the changes.....

[Runner]

Instead of explaining the changes here are the two zipped files md5.js and jcap.js

captcha.js.zip

These have all the mods detailed in above thread. Just follow Gabe's instructions using these files.

[rjcuser]

I'm trying to get FormToEmail to work.... is there anything quirky to make it work within Actinic v9... where should one put the FormToEmail.php file?

[rmorrow]

Recaptcha implementation

If anyone is interested, I have implemented 'Recaptcha' using some mods to the MailForm perl script and the Contact Us page layout. I'll package it into a cheap and cheerful add-on for anyone who wants it.

Info on recaptcha: http://recaptcha.net/
See it in action: http://activestock.mumstuff.co.uk/ (go to Contact Us page)

[Bonjour]

I've just implemented Richards quick Captcha for £23, saved me a lot of time and hassle!

Thanks Richard

[Darren B]

Info on recaptcha: http://recaptcha.net/
See it in action: http://activestock.mumstuff.co.uk/ (go to Contact Us page)

We use recaptcha for new user registrations over the other place, it works really well my level of spam sign up's has dropped by massive amounts

[rmorrow]

Hi Darren

I like the idea of contributing to a worthy cause too. Showing images that optical readers have been unable to digitise also gives you confidence that spammers will find it difficult to break...

They also do a 'MailHide' tool so you can ask customers to complete a Captcha and then show them your contact email address, if you prefer that to using a Contact Us form.

[graphicz]

Just for information, I bought Richard's ReCaptcha plugin but my problem is that I cannot ask my hosting company to install the perl package Captcha::reCAPTCHA as due to the nature of their shared hosting servers they do not allow installations of packages to their server. Any other ideas? I am rather struggling with the whole reCaptcha thing.

[Duncan Rounding]

Recaptcha can be implemented without installing on your server - you can use the api and keys from the recaptcha server. It will require a mailform.pl mod to implement.

A client site is using this method and it works fine. I didn't do the perl mod so it might be incorrect of me to post the modification I'm afraid. The info is all available here: http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/

[graphicz]

1) How can one change the contact us page to *.php to use Richard's suggestion above?

2) I have implemented* Matt's Formmail* into Actinic with Recaptcha using the Google instructions here:http://wiki.recaptcha.net/index.php/Overview

*Matt's Formmail http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html
*My example http://www.graphicz.eu.com/cgi-bin/m...CTION=SHOWFORM

3) There is a disgruntled post just now from a customer (joined 2003) complaining about Actinic's reluctance to secure the contact form.http://community.actinic.com/showthr...t=34117&page=3

[Duncan Rounding]

1) How can one change the contact us page to *.php to use Richard's suggestion above?

The simplest would be to create your own brochure page as your Contact Us page for this.

[graphicz]

Recaptcha can be implemented without installing on your server - you can use the api and keys from the recaptcha server. It will require a mailform.pl mod to implement.

The simplest would be for Actinic to make the changes to the form and to mailform.pl for us.