Support Thread for Google reCAPTCHA plugin

[David Allen]

Thanks DrByte - new version being tested, docs still to do :)
Regards
David

[David Allen]

New version released.
v2.0 uses the new notifier hooks added in ZenCart v1.5.1 and a new observer class. So no core files to alter if you're using v1.5.1 or newer :)
I expanded it to include the write a review page as well as adding the auto detection of SSL pages. It now uses zen_get_ip_address() to better cope with proxies etc.

[kruzzerr]

We are currently having our Zencart version being updated from 1.3.9 to 1.5 ,we have the Captcha succesfully integrated to our older version 1.3.9 of Zencart however our developer having a difficulty to install this to the new 1.5 version because of the GD and Imagemagick are not installed ,also she said we are having a PHP depraceted code issue and our hosting Godaddy not support this
Can you please suggest the way forward how this can be solved?

[David Allen]

We are currently having our Zencart version being updated from 1.3.9 to 1.5 ,we have the Captcha succesfully integrated to our older version 1.3.9 of Zencart however our developer having a difficulty to install this to the new 1.5 version because of the GD and Imagemagick are not installed ,also she said we are having a PHP depraceted code issue and our hosting Godaddy not support this
Can you please suggest the way forward how this can be solved?

Are you sure you are using my Google reCAPTCHA plugin? Because it doesn't use GD or Imagemagick.

[zilog357]

Hello David. This is very kind of you for sharing this contribution of yours. I have a simple question, I am using zencart v1.3.8a and would like to know if there is any possibility to put the reCaptcha in the admin login page. I think that would help in protecting against robotic brute-force attempts. I can not move to ZC 1.5 for now, as I have done many core edits.

Thank you in advance.

[David Allen]

[QUOTE=zilog357;1157983]I am using zencart v1.3.8a and would like to know if there is any possibility to put the reCaptcha in the admin login page.
</QUOTE]
Zilog - it should be possible to include it on the admin login page. You'd have to include the files in the corresponding admin folders and add the appropriate entries to login.php.
I'm interested as to why you are getting brute force attempts? You did rename your admin directory didn't you??

I think that would help in protecting against robotic brute-force attempts. I can not move to ZC 1.5 for now, as I have done many core edits.

I think that as you are using such an old version the possibility of robotic brute-force attempts is much less than the gaping security holes that are known to exist in those older versions on Zen.
I'd recommend upgrading asap

[RePete]

Hi JC,

I am using the same templates as you and am having issues getting this to work as well.
Did you have any luck getting the recaptcha to work?

Peter

JC - can't see anything wrong with that - as you say it's the downloaded one. Very odd.
I've quickly tried a few other things that I thought could possibly cause it (and some that I was sure wouldn't), but have come up blank. I can't get it to send without the reCAPATCHA filled in.
I'm stumped, sorry. All I can suggest is putting some debugging statements in the file to try and find out why $error isn't being set to true when the reCAPATCHA isn't filled in.

[David Allen]

Hi JC,

I am using the same templates as you and am having issues getting this to work as well.
Did you have any luck getting the recaptcha to work?

Peter

Peter - what issues are you having? Perhaps a link to the problem would help me discover what is wrong.
Regards
David

[David Allen]

In response to a post in another thread I thought I'd highlight some of the customisations that cane be made to the appearance of the Google reCAPTCHA.
Firstly there are 4 different styles supplied by Google:
White

Red (Default colour)

Black

Clean

To use these just include the following script on the page

        <script type="text/javascript">
            var RecaptchaOptions = {
                theme: 'white'
            };
        </script>

Additionally it is possible to style the individual elements through CSS. The following changes the font of the 'Type the two words' text

.recaptcha_only_if_image {
color:red !important;
font-size:1.4em !important;
}

There are many more customisations available see this Google page for more information, or just post here and I'll be happy to help.
Regards
David

[David Allen]

Oops - I forgot to paste in the image of the css customised version:
Edit second attempt - pasting the image didn't work. I'll upload it this time :)