Captcha gfx_check not working

Regular Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 93

At some point (way in the past - maybe 2 years ago) I disabled the captcha from my site due to some issue I was having with it.

We'll my site has now become the target of a POS spammer who keeps signing up new accounts (like dozens every day) and I'm having to manually purge them out.

I tried to reenable captcha by setting...

$gfx_chk = 3

for new users in config.php, but it doesnt seem to be working. I've also tried setting it to a value of 7 for all users, but I'm still not being prompted to enter the access code.

Any clue as to where I should check next?

Thanks so much

P.S.
I've checked the last_ip section of the database for all these accounts, and they always come back with a value of 0 - how is this person cloaking their IP address?

registered · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:19 pm

Do you get something that looks like a "broken image"? I don't know for sure, but it might be that the GD libraries are not installed (ask your host to enable them for you).

This might help.

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/faq-2-.html#27

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:35 am

Ghostgeek you need to check the behavior of the captcha with both browser IE and Firefox. Like many guys I had the same issue with this function. After I changed the code in the files the captcha worked only in IE and not in Firefox. But it was a good start. I checked then all files and indeed I found a blank line in mainfile.php. Afterthat it worked with both browser. Hope this helps. However, there are so many reasons for this issue maybe use the search function here and you ´ll find out how people solved this problem. Smile

Regular Joined: Dec 28, 2004 Posts: 94

Quote:

I found a blank line in mainfile.php.

I've just been scratching my head for ages on this one. Using RN 2.10.01

Yes Susan. After ?> in mainfile.php. Once I deleted that then all worked fine. Thanks for the simple but utterly time saving fix. Smile

Trub

Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 5:04 am

Glad that worked for you. Smile