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#7687
CAPTCHA - an absolute must need... right now 1 Year, 3 Months ago  
I have been running Joomlaboard for a few years... good product.
My site averages 45,000 viewers and about 1.7 million hits per month. A secure forum has been an important feature for me.
Thankfully, I have Security-Images and CAPTCHA running on my Joomlaboard forum - it saves me hours of clean-up work wiping away senseless and irritating spam and referer defacement on my site.

I installed Fireboard last week. My readers love it. I love it.
Sadly within a few days the SPAMMERS hit with a vengeance.

So. I uninstalled Fireboard.

I will migrate to Fireboard when/if a CAPTCHA feature appears.
The success of any forum is dependant on at least this basic layer
of protection against BOTS and referer weasels.

I look forward to a CAPTCHA enabled Fireboard.
Good work ladies and gents,

www.coffeecrew.com
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Re:CAPTCHA - an absolute must need... night now 1 Year, 3 Months ago  
With some help from Shane and Peter and some of my own notes, I have managed to alter a few files in Fireboard to get CAPTCHA working... more or less.

It is not throwing any errors. I am seeing the CAPTCHA image.
When I enter the characters, I get a security check failed message.

In post.php -- replace


if (empty($fb_authorname))

{

echo _POST_FORGOT_NAME;

}

else if (empty($subject))

{

echo _POST_FORGOT_SUBJECT;

}

else if (empty($message))

{
echo _POST_FORGOT_MESSAGE;

}

else

{




with:

if ($my->id==0) {
include ($mosConfig_absolute_path.'/administrator/components/com_securityimages/server.php';
$checkSecurity = checkSecurityImage($security_refid, $security_try);
}
if (empty($fb_authorname))
echo _POST_FORGOT_NAME;
else if (empty($subject))
echo _POST_FORGOT_SUBJECT;
else if (empty($message))
echo _POST_FORGOT_MESSAGE;
if ($my->id==0 && $checkSecurity==false)
echo "Security check failed!"; // replace this with whatever text you would like your user to see.
else {


additionally, in fb_write.html.php add

id==0) {
include ($mosConfig_absolute_path.'/administrator/components/com_securityimages/client.php'; ?>
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Re:CAPTCHA - an absolute must need... night now 1 Year, 3 Months ago  
hello

i added captcha support to my fireboard forum based on the security images extension from cedric walter.
i modified in the folder {joomla-home}/components/com_fireboard/template/default the sources fb_write.html.php and post.php to load a captcha when a guest user wants to post a message.

attached is a zip file with the modified sources:
fb_write.html.php modifications around line 254
post.php modifications around line 96

File Attachment:
File Name: fireboard_captcha.zip
File Size: 13759


i hope somebody can use this information and that the forum developers will include captcha for stable release 1.0.2.

greets allon
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#9249
Re:CAPTCHA - an absolute must need... night now 1 Year, 3 Months ago  
Thank you for the effort -

but your MOD did not work for me.
When I typed in my message and clicked SUBMIT
it took me to the page

www.mysite.com/JB_LIVEURLREL&func=post

with a PAGE NOT FOUND error.

I appreciate your efforts.
Did your MOD work for you?

Like I said before - CAPTCHA is a MUST for Fireboard to
thrive.
I keep using Joomlaboard because the CAPTCHA mod works.
My attempts at using FB were thwarted by a deluge of
SPAM within days of install.

Thanks!
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Re:CAPTCHA - an absolute must need... night now 1 Year, 3 Months ago  
and I think I know why...

here is a line from POST.PHP

echo 'a href="' . sefRelToAbs (JB_LIVEURLREL . '& func=view&catid=' . $catid . '&id=' . $pid) . '#' . $pid .

Note the & AMP that appears.

that is wrong I think...
My version of unstuffit for MAC did this, yes?
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#9335
Re:CAPTCHA - an absolute must need... night now 1 Year, 3 Months ago  
the security images code looks different if you use the com_security_images extension prior to the version 4.

perhaps it helps!!!
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Re:CAPTCHA - an absolute must need... night now 1 Year, 3 Months ago  
I am using the latest version of com_security images.

i think my version of unzip on the mac laptop
I use has inserted some odd characters into the
code.

I will use a terminal session and unzip
from the command line to unzip your
2 altered files and then report back.

Thanks!
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Re:CAPTCHA - an absolute must need... night now 1 Year, 3 Months ago  
allon wrote:
the security images code looks different if you use the com_security_images extension prior to the version 4.

perhaps it helps!!!


I am using version 4.12 of security images.

I just tried out your forum and the CAPTCHA works great!

Could you e-mail me the two files that you modified?

I am thinking that something went haywire in the ZIP
file.
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#9639
Re:CAPTCHA - an absolute must need... night now 1 Year, 3 Months ago  
It works!

I was using Beta 1.00

as opposed to Beta 1.01

Happy happy happy!



I urge everyone to add this simple MOD
to their Fireboards.

Make sure they download the latest version
of Walter Cedrics com_securityimages.

Cheers!
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Re:CAPTCHA - an absolute must need... night now 1 Year, 3 Months ago  
good to hear
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