Advanced Visual Verification

[Morning]

Most people assume it is nobody/nobody. Actually, my perms are fine for the settings I use.

Excerpt from httpd.conf:

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#
# If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
# httpd as root initially and it will switch.
#

User www
Group www


imho - world writeable is to be avoided as much as possible. Normally my perms are o-rwx (or --- for others)

[DJ Skott]

I'm getting this error

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Fatal error: packageinstall(): Failed opening required '/home2/xxxxpublic_html/xxx/board/Packages/temp/./installverification.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home2/xxxx/public_html/xxxx/board/Sources/Packages.php on line 540

[Morning]

This was the problem I was getting constantly.

I made the directory, and reinstalled, deinstalled, and installed again. Then everything installed.

* I have had to do it twice like this, and had to wait some hours before the deinstall worked. My best guess is that there are some cookies, or session "thingies" preventing the deinstall from working initially. So if you try to deinstall, and it doesnt work, try in 12 hours. And witness a miracle!

[Laibeus Lord]

Errors / bugs

Part I.
Even if member and guest PM, search and posting are enabled, no captcha is being loaded.  Basically, only works for me on the registration page.

Part II.
These are the errors I get.

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8: Undefined index: verificationAskGuestSearch
File: /home/laibcom/public_html/boards/Sources/Search.php
Line: 298


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8: Undefined index: verificationAskPM
File: /home/laibcom/public_html/boards/Sources/PersonalMessage.php
Line: 1391


Errors show even with the settings "unchecked" and with the core theme and any other theme (with all the theme settings properly and correctly added).

Thanks

Could this be related to some session or cookies being stored somewhere?  Sometimes these errors don't show up, there are times when it does.

[Morning]

I dont know if your probem is like mine. I thought Advanced Visual Verification was the built-in captcha. I originally came to this thread thinking it was fixes for that.

I never got the built to work, but - with a bit of difficulity, I did get this one to work.

If only there was a version for smf/joomla bridged versions - I'd be very happy.

If you are not 'suffering' from the confusion I had, just disregard the post - and gl with your problem. 

[shahrc]

I got this error

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Fatal error: packageinstall() [function.require]: Failed opening required
'/x/x/x/Packages/temp/./installverification.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /x/x/x/Sources/Packages.php on line 540

How to solve this?

[J. Williams]

I got this error

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Fatal error: packageinstall() [function.require]: Failed opening required
'/x/x/x/Packages/temp/./installverification.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /x/x/x/Sources/Packages.php on line 540

That is not related to this modification

How to solve this?

[Krysia]

Well, it installed with no problems, and the visuals appeared without difficulty in all their colorful glory.

So far, so good. <phew, crosses fingers>

Thank you for the fabulous mod.

[shiva777]

Hello and thank you for the mod! I have one problem though: I am setting up my site with a 'simple view' theme and an advanced view theme. The weird thing is that when someone is in one theme and goes to register the verification image does not show up. The form field and 'type in the letters' message comes up but no image. However, if they switch to the other theme then it shows up fine. Don' these feed off the same files no matter what the theme? Why would it show up in one theme and not another?
Any help appreciated!

~shiva

[PuG]

Hi - mod looks good, installed fine with no erros but no image appears - comes up with red cross in IE, and preview in admin fails to work.

Running latest GD.

Any suggestions?

Regards!


Update - Had to uninstall then reinstall the mod - working

[Rop]

When applying the mod it shows:

2.     Execute Modification     -     Modification parse error

The "install now" option is still enabled after that, though it is clear that nothing gets installed when hitting it.

This is a fresh install of SMF 1.1-RC3 on a W2K machine, running Apache v2, PHP5 (safe_mode = Off), and MySQL 5.0.27. All on the same machine. The entire SMF directory and everything underneath has full access control for everyone, with 'inherit' enabled so the temp dir that Package Manager creates plus its files have full controll as well. The database user account has SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX and ALTER access to the forum schemata.

Any ideas on where to look or what to try? A better description on what this error message actually means would be helpful too. I've exhausted all ideas on this end...

Thank you!

-Rob-

[dvd-man]

I apoligize if this has been asked before in this thread; but I didn't wanna read all 15 pages

Can you use this mod with custom themes? If so... how? I noticed some of the files affected were template files.

Thanks!

[Daniel Hofverberg]

I have just installed this mod, and it works fine for me - nice to finally be able to enable guest posting again.

However, one suggestion for HarzeM: Would it be possible for you to add an option to use CAPTCHA on "Send topic" as well (I e when someone clicks "Send this topic", to send an e-mail to someone about a topic)? As it is now, it's pretty much impossible to enable that option for guests, as it would result in tons of spam e-mails being sent from the forum. Therefore, it would be very useful if CAPTCHA could be added when guests are using that feature as well. Any way to add this to the next version?

[Dozzer]

Help on installing...

I have the following error:

Modification parse error   (in red) when trying to install using the package manager.

All of my files and folders are chmod 777.

Any ideas?

regards,

Doz

[Boyscoutz]

Hi,

First of all it appears to be a great mod - however, I can't get the verification image to show up. There is a red cross - no preview, no sound etc. I run the lastest version of SMF 1.1 RC3, default english language, Default_modern skin - and everything installed without any errors.

The image will not show on preview, nor in the registration. Do I need to install other stuff than the Advanced Visual Registration or do you have any ideas of how to fix this?

Thanks

[Harzem]

Does that theme (default-modern) have its own template files? If so, which ones? I'm asking about .php files.

[Boyscoutz]

Yes it has an index.template.php

Thanks

[SteveW]

There seems to be a problem with audio using Firefox, only read first letter, and sometimes its incorrect. Works great with IE. No installation problems or log entries.

[J. Williams]

Thats mainly cause the sound file doesn't know the letter.

[ryanwagner]

Hopefully we'll see this mod added to the SMF 1.1 compatibility list soon.