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Question [Merged topic] The great CAPTCHA problem discussion
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- crazydiver
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Thanks for the link! Highly appreciate it!
After trying several, the System - Captcha seemed fit the best with Kunena since it goes right in the specific Captcha Area and a professional look is important to me.
I have had to play with it a bit (reduced Captcha characters to 3, changed "char filling" to "." from "/" to make it more readable and used colours in captcha that match my site theme).
Something that I'm still not comfortable with is that it seems to still get an uncanning about of "Wrong Captcha typed..." messages and whenever this happens all the text in a post is lost. This is a big turn off.
I've been trying to find where I can edit the "Captcha code Type characters you see. (Click on image to refresh)" text to put a warning of this but can't find it in any kunena or plugin language file. (If anyone knows, please let me know).
I am glad you posted since it seems that this loss of post data won't occur with JoomlaXi Captcha 2.0. I read up on their site that:
www.joomlaxi.com/company/blog/107-joomlaxi-captcha-20.html
As if now, XIJC do not support protection of File Uploading pages.
So it seems its just a matter of time for them to solve your issue.
As for me, if someone wants to upload, they would be expected to register on the site (thus avoiding any captcha) whereas any casual non registered poster would just be able to enter a captcha and not risk loosing their post if they get it wrong.
Hopefully we can figure out how this can best work and maybe inspire others to make it work.
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JoomlaXi Captcha 2.0 is quite an advanced component and looks quite professional (and is free!).
The one short coming that I can't figure out with it is how to prevent it from forcing a captcha for logged-in users.
Does anyone know how? There are several options like white lists and blacklists that JoomlaXi Captcha 2.0 gives to address such an issue, but I really don't know what "VARIABLE" or "TASK" to indicate to do what I want done.
Anyone already "been there done that"? Please let me know what you did so that I can do the same. Thanks!
An unregistered/not logged in user would get this message after submitting a post in my Kunena 1.6 Forum - I want to know how to prevent it from appearing for registered/logged in users.
This is how I activated the Caption for Kunena Forum:
This is where I think I have to enter "something"(what?) so logged in users DON'T get the Captcha. I need help finding what paramaters / values / variables to put here:
This is where other settings are done:
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I am hoping nobody will abuse this. Somebody could register and then abuse the anonymous forums - guess that is my main concern. Their ips are not logged so I wouldn't be able to pinpoint who is doing it and therefore may have to shut down those forums, as nobody will use them if they have to put their real name on the community in there... If I could have the "anonymous" just be so it doesn't show their username and they could enter a username but I still had something to track somebody spamming that topic.
See what I mean?
I'll take that as a "no" and assume it can't be easily done.
I would like to have a captcha in my Kunena forum so that users that are not registered can write if they enter a captcha.
To do this I installed the Joomla Captcha and the patch for Joomla as indicated in: code.google.com/p/joomla15captcha/ I also set to yes the "Enable Captcha Plugin System Third Party." but when a non-registered user wants to post a message instead of the captcha it appears the message "The CAPTCHA plug-in is not enabled or not properly configured."
What could be the problem? Or do you recomend using an alternative plugin?
Thank you for your help.
I had not added the "kunena.post" that's why it din't work the first time. After doing that it worked in one test I did. But now some days later it does not work again. Now it always says that the captcha is incorrect and the shown captcha is always "JOOMLACAPTCHA". What could the problem be?
Find below my configuration.
Thanks in advance.
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board_title Puzzle Forum board_offline 0 board_ofset 0.00 offline_message <h2>The Forum is currently offline for maintenance.</h2>
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- dirkovision
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foton7 wrote: Hello,
Thank you for your help.
I had not added the "kunena.post" that's why it din't work the first time. After doing that it worked in one test I did. But now some days later it does not work again. Now it always says that the captcha is incorrect and the shown captcha is always "JOOMLACAPTCHA". What could the problem be?
Find below my configuration.
Thanks in advance.
Database collation check: The collation of your table fields are correct
Legacy mode: Disabled | Joomla! SEF: Enabled | Joomla! SEF rewrite: Disabled | FTP layer: Disabled | htaccess: Exists | PHP environment: Max execution time: 40 seconds | Max execution memory: 32M | Max file upload: 10M
Joomla default template details : beez | author: Angie Radtke/Robert Deutz | version: 1.0.0 | creationdate: 19 February 2007
Kunena version detailled: Installed version: 1.6.1 | Build: 3858 | Version name: Timu | Kunena detailled configuration:
Warning: Spoiler![th]Kunena config settings:[/th]
board_title Puzzle Forum board_offline 0 board_ofset 0.00 offline_message <h2>The Forum is currently offline for maintenance.</h2>
<div>Check back soon!</div>enablerss 1 enablepdf 1 threads_per_page 20 messages_per_page 10 messages_per_page_search 15 showhistory 1 historylimit 6 shownew 1 jmambot 0 disemoticons 0 template default showannouncement 1 avataroncat 0 catimagepath category_images/ showchildcaticon 1 annmodid 62 rtewidth 450 rteheight 300 enableforumjump 1 reportmsg 1 username 1 askemail 0 showemail 0 showuserstats 1 showkarma 1 useredit 1 useredittime 0 useredittimegrace 600 editmarkup 1 allowsubscriptions 1 subscriptionschecked 1 allowfavorites 1 maxsubject 65 maxsig 300 regonly 0 changename 0 pubwrite 1 floodprotection 12 mailmod 0 mailadmin 1 captcha 1 mailfull 1 allowavatar 1 allowavatarupload 1 allowavatargallery 1 avatarquality 65 avatarsize 2048 allowimageupload 0 allowimageregupload 1 imageheight 800 imagewidth 800 imagesize 200 allowfileupload 0 allowfileregupload 1 filetypes txt,rtf,pdf,zip,tar.gz,tgz,tar.bz2,pzz filesize 200 showranking 1 rankimages 1 avatar_src fb fb_profile fb pm_component no userlist_rows 30 userlist_online 1 userlist_avatar 1 userlist_name 0 userlist_username 1 userlist_posts 1 userlist_karma 1 userlist_email 0 userlist_usertype 1 userlist_joindate 1 userlist_lastvisitdate 1 userlist_userhits 1 latestcategory 0 showstats 1 showwhoisonline 1 showgenstats 1 showpopuserstats 1 popusercount 5 showpopsubjectstats 1 popsubjectcount 5 usernamechange 0 rules_infb 1 rules_cid 1 help_infb 1 help_cid 1 showspoilertag 1 showvideotag 1 showebaytag 1 trimlongurls 1 trimlongurlsfront 40 trimlongurlsback 20 autoembedyoutube 1 autoembedebay 1 ebaylanguagecode en-us fbsessiontimeout 2700 highlightcode 0 rss_type topic rss_timelimit month rss_limit 100 rss_included_categories rss_excluded_categories rss_specification rss2.0 rss_allow_html 1 rss_author_format name rss_author_in_title 1 rss_word_count 0 rss_old_titles 1 rss_cache 900 fbdefaultpage recent default_sort asc alphauserpointsnumchars 20 sef 1 sefcats 0 sefutf8 0 showimgforguest 1 showfileforguest 1 pollnboptions 4 pollallowvoteone 1 pollenabled 1 poppollscount 5 showpoppollstats 1 polltimebtvotes 00:15:00 pollnbvotesbyuser 100 pollresultsuserslist 1 maxpersotext 50 ordering_system mesid post_dateformat ago post_dateformat_hover datetime hide_ip 1 js_actstr_integration 0 imagetypes jpg,jpeg,gif,png checkmimetypes 1 imagemimetypes image/jpeg,image/jpg,image/gif,image/png imagequality 50 thumbheight 32 thumbwidth 32 hideuserprofileinfo put_empty integration_access auto integration_login auto integration_avatar auto integration_profile auto integration_private auto integration_activity auto boxghostmessage 0 userdeletetmessage 1 latestcategory_in 1 topicicons 1 onlineusers 1 debug 0 catsautosubscribed 0 showbannedreason 0 version_check 1 showthankyou 1 showpopthankyoustats 1 popthankscount 5 mod_see_deleted 0 bbcode_img_secure text listcat_show_moderators 1 lightbox 1 activity_limit 0 Third-party components: AlphaUserPoints: Disabled or not installed | CommunityBuilder: Disabled or not installed | Jomsocial: Disabled or not installed | UddeIm: Installed (Version : 2.2)
Plugins: System - Mootools12: Disabled | System - Mootools Upgrade: Disabled | JFirePHP: Disabled or not installed | Kunena Discuss: Disabled or not installed | Kunena Search: Disabled or not installed | My Kunena Forum Menu: Disabled or not installed | My Kunena Forum Posts: Disabled or not installed
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we have the same problem. exactly the copy of it. reading now 2 days, find lots of problem description, but regrettably not a clear answer about the settings. hope someone will read and help
thanks very much
www.tref.eu
I have just installed the system-captcha plugin and followed all steps for configuration.
Now, my problem is that the captcha label is not shown!
Where did I go wrong?
What can I do?
Joomla: 1.5.22
Kunena: 1.6.2
captcha plugin: j45_inst_jcaptcha 451
italian plugin: j43_install-it_It_lang
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board_title PsicoNet Forum board_offline 0 board_ofset 0 offline_message <h2> Il forum รจ momentaneamente inattivo.
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