Captcha image verification
posted on 2006-06-24 00:47:34NEW Contact Form script NEW
A good way to avoid automatic form submissions when creating a web form is to add some kind of verification. One of the best ways is to use an image verification, called also captcha. What it does is to dynamically create an image with a random string displayed on it. Then visitor is asked to type that string in a text field and once the form is submitted it checks if the string on the image matches the one inputted by the user. Because there is no easy way to read a text from an image (image recognition) this is a good way to protect your web forms from spammers.
For doing this CAPTCHA I would suggest using a session variable where you store the string generated and displayed on that dynamically generated image.
session_start();
$text = rand(10000,99999);
$_SESSION["vercode"] = $text;
$height = 25;
$width = 65;
$image_p = imagecreate($width, $height);
$black = imagecolorallocate($image_p, 0, 0, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate($image_p, 255, 255, 255);
$font_size = 14;
imagejpeg($image_p, null, 80);
?>
Save this code in a file called captcha.php. What this script does is to generate a random number from 10000 to 99999 and then assign it to $_SESSION['vercode']. Then it generates a 25x65 pixels image with black background and white text using size 14. So if you upload that captcha.php file on your web site and open http://www.site.com/captcha.php you will see an image displaying random integer. You will receive a new random integer every time you refresh that page.
Next we need to create our web form.
Comment: <textarea name="coment"></textarea><br>
Enter Code <img src="captcha.php"><input type="text" name="vercode" /><br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
Above code will create a form with a single textarea box, randomly generated image using the captcha.php script and a text field where you will have to enter the verification code.
All we have to do now is to make the submit.php script which will check if the verification code you enter matches the one that has been randomly generated.
session_start();
if ($_POST["vercode"] != $_SESSION["vercode"] OR $_SESSION["vercode"]=='') {
echo '<strong>Incorrect verification code.</strong><br>';
} else {
// add form data processing code here
echo '<strong>Verification successful.</strong><br>';
};
?>
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For a small fee we can make any of your web forms have a CAPTCHA verification. Let us know if you need help with it.
| Comments |
| Hanshi posted on 2008-06-26 00:18:39 |
| When i test out the captcha.php file i get a page full of wierd weddings characters...but it does change everytime i refresh. Can someone help me out? thanks! ------------ Veselin: please send URL to your web page |
| shubhangi posted on 2008-06-20 14:37:56 |
| how to upload file on web site |
| Al Teal posted on 2008-06-19 16:07:07 |
| Getting this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagecreate() in /var/www/pmiapp/captcha.php on line 9 ---------------- Veselin: this means that your PHP version does not support the GD functions used to generate image |
| Florian posted on 2008-06-18 16:01:34 |
| i am using it for guestbook entries. It creates image, if not entering the number the message "Incorrect verification code" is shown, but adds entry anyway? Any ideas? --------------------- Veselin: most probably the insert guestbook entry is not in the right place. It should be where you have this // add form data processing code here echo '<strong>Verification successful.</strong><br>'; |
| Sandy posted on 2008-06-16 17:56:33 |
| is there a chart of the different color codes for this? that i can look at ? ----------- Veselin: these are RGB color code values |
| Sandy posted on 2008-06-16 17:31:15 |
| How do we get the black background to blue? Thanks --------------- Veselin: change this imagecolorallocate($image_p, 0, 0, 0); to imagecolorallocate($image_p, 70, 10, 220); |
| tom posted on 2008-06-12 22:43:29 |
| For doing this CAPTCHA I would suggest using a session variable where you store the string generated and displayed on that dynamically generated image. can you explain this instruction in detail? what is a session variable? store the string? where do i get the dynamically generated image? the referenced website (http://www.site.com/captcha.php) didn't work... thank you! |
| Elaine posted on 2008-04-24 14:41:38 |
| This code works great, but one thing i would like it to do if anyone can tell me how to do this, i would like the error message to display next to the verification box instead of at the top of the page , is that possible? Thanks, Elaine ----------------- Veselin: you need to have your form on PHP based web page and the verification to be on top of it and then print the error message where your box is. For a small fee we can make your contact form on PHP page and also make the message display next to the captcha box. Email us if you are interested. |
| qleyo posted on 2008-04-18 14:33:54 |
| works perfectly! thanks a lot! |
| Hugh Brecher posted on 2008-04-04 11:31:44 |
| I would like to use the Captcha.php validation script for one of my forms. The form is here: http://www.****.com/info-form.html How much will you charge to do this for me and send me the completed revised form by email attachment? I would like it to show up very much the way that THIS form does. Thanks, Hugh ------------------- can you send me a message that you receive when the form is submitted. It usually costs about $35 to add a captcha script and make the form on PHP page. Veselin |