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Customizing SMF => Modifications and Packages => Topic started by: Daniel15 on August 17, 2007, 06:06:13 AM

Title: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Daniel15 on August 17, 2007, 06:06:13 AM
Link to Mod (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=907)

Advanced Visual Verification Mod
By HarzeM
Updated by Daniel15.




Introduction
This mod replaces default verification code system of SMF 1.1 with an advanced system.

Only Works for SMF 1.1.2 and above!

Features
- Ask image in registration
- Ask image in guest posting
- Ask image when a guest or a member searches the forum
- Ask image when sending personal messages (does not seem to work properly on SMF 1.1.3)
- One image can be valid for more than one searches or PMs!
- Put an upper limit of failures
- Block users by defined minutes when they reach maximum failure limit
- Select one of the three image types and backgrounds
- Select image size
- Select number of characters
- Generate effective images even if your server doesn't have GD installed!
- Generate effective fonts even if your server doesn't have FreeType installed!
- Logs failures in error log.

You can modify the settings via
Admin > Registration > Visual Verification

Version History
1.2 - Updated to support SMF 1.1.2 and 1.1.3, by Daniel15.
1.1 - Bug Fix and SMF 1.1 update
1.0 - Initial Release
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Daniel15 on August 17, 2007, 06:06:53 AM
I haven't tested this extensively... Any feedback would be great :)
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: 8220 on August 17, 2007, 04:57:04 PM
I have no settings under Registration?

And i installed it whit browse packages.

Jens

Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Daniel15 on August 17, 2007, 11:31:24 PM
Are you sure? It should be a new tab like this:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=download;mod=907;id=38303;image (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=download;mod=907;id=38303;image)
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: 8220 on August 18, 2007, 06:33:47 AM
Sure!

This is my test forum and i see no settings.

Jens
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: 8220 on August 18, 2007, 09:12:18 AM
If i remove it i become this error page

And i have installed it again and also no settings.

Jens
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Dragooon on August 18, 2007, 09:25:51 AM
Looks like a ownership error.
Because of ownership error you are unable to auto modify files through script.
In short contact your host.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Hondo on August 21, 2007, 10:04:17 AM
Hi,
I Installed it manually because I have to much modifications and it don't work automatically.
It works fine as I can see but!!
I need an option to disable the visual verification for registered users. That is really needed.
Now I have disabled it because I can not force registered users to use this captcha verification.

Andreas
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Dragooon on August 21, 2007, 10:05:36 AM
Where you want it to disable?
In PMs? Go to Admin > Features and Options  > "Minimum Posts required before CAPTCHA is dsiabled" or something like that and set it to 0 and save.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Hondo on August 21, 2007, 10:16:25 AM
Hi,
I use SMF 1.1.2 And I don´t have this option.
I have only this:
"Post count under which users must enter code when sending personal messages."

When I enable the visual verification I myself must enter the captche when I´m posting and I have more than 2000 postings.

Andreas
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Hondo on August 21, 2007, 03:00:35 PM
OK I found my Problem.
There was in post.php other, older Code from a hack with captcha.
Now it works perfect, thank you.

Andreas
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: motumbo on September 08, 2007, 12:29:15 AM
I'm looking for visual verification for guests since it is missing in SMF (a mystery why...).  I've never installed a mod before, and really wish I didn't have to.  But, it is important that I allow guests to post and I get so much spam I don't like going to my own board. 

I shall look at the code, install it, and hope for the best.

Thanks to Harzem for developing this.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: motumbo on September 08, 2007, 02:29:05 AM
Installing this was pretty quick and painless.  And it seems to work quite nicely. 

I didn't notice any bugs.  Before I put this into production, I'll have to test it out for a few days.  If I do find any bugs, I'll be sure to report back.

Thanks to the original developer and Daniel15.  This could be the end of 10 - 15 spam messages and bot registrations per day!  :D :D :D
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: motumbo on September 11, 2007, 02:58:46 AM
There is a major bug in this mod.

The captcha code for visual verification is in TWO different places in the private message screen in my installation.  Not only that, but it does NOT work, even when you correctly fill out the captcha information in both places.

I believe one is above the text box where you type your message and the other is just above the submit button.

Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: motumbo on September 11, 2007, 07:07:59 AM
By the way, I installed this mod on top of a fresh installation of 1.1.3.  I downloaded both tonight.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Panache Web on October 06, 2007, 09:14:11 AM
it does not work, using the smf/joomla bridge at all...  also the original captcha does not work as well
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Fallen Angel on December 11, 2007, 12:48:19 PM
Here is a danish translation of Modifications.danish-utf8.php to this mod, running on SMF 1.1.4 and Dilber MC theme.


// --- Begin added code - Advanced Visuel Verification ---
$txt['verificationVisual'] = 'Visuel Verification';
$txt['verificationSettingsDesc'] = 'Her kan du ændre mange instillinger omkring visuel verification på din side.';

$txt['enable_visual_verification'] = 'Slå visuel verification til';
$txt['verificationCodeChars'] = 'Antal af bogstaver i verification billedet';
$txt['verificationMaxTries'] = 'Antal fejl før bruger bliver blokeret';
$txt['verificationWaitTime'] = 'Antal minutter før blokering udløber';

$txt['verificationAskRegister'] = 'Spørg ved registrering';
$txt['verificationAskGuestPost'] = 'Spørg når gæst skriver';
$txt['verificationAskPM'] = 'Spørg når der sendes personlige beskeder';
$txt['verificationPMvalid'] = 'Maksimum antal personlige beskeder et verifications billede kan bruges til';
$txt['verificationPMvalidDesc'] = 'Dette er det antal personlige beskeder hvor brugeren ikke vil blive spurgt om nyt verification billede, når først koden er skrevet korrekt. Anbefaldet indstilling er 5-10';
$txt['verificationAskGuestSearch'] = 'Spørg gæst når der søges';
$txt['verificationAskMemberSearch'] = 'Spørg når bruger søger';
$txt['verificationSearchValid'] = 'Maksimum antal søgninger et verification billede kan bruges til';
$txt['verificationSearchValidDesc'] = 'Dette er det antal søgninger hvor brugeren ikke vil blive spurgt om nyt verification billede, når først koden er skrevet korrekt. Anbefaldet indstilling er 5-10.';

$txt['verificationImageBackground'] = 'Baggrunds type for billede';
$txt['verificationBGnoise'] = 'Noise';
$txt['verificationBGnoiseDesc'] = 'Hurtig men ikke særlig effektiv. Du kan bruge denne hvis du ikke mistænker at dit forum stadig får automatisk registrering.';
$txt['verificationBGlines'] = 'Distorted Lines';
$txt['verificationBGlinesDesc'] = 'Anbefalet. Generere nemt at læse men svær at gætte.';
$txt['verificationBGcolored'] = 'Random Colors';
$txt['verificationBGcoloredDesc'] = 'Svært at bryde, men langsom og svær at læse. Ikke alle servere vil være istand til at vise dette. Se et eksempel før du bruger det.';
$txt['verificationBGcircles'] = 'Inverted circles';
$txt['verificationBGcirclesDesc'] = 'Sværest at bryde, men sløvt og svært at læse.';

$txt['verificationImageSize'] = 'Billede størrelse';
$txt['verificationImageSizeSmall'] = 'Lille';
$txt['verificationImageSizeMedium'] = 'Medium';
$txt['verificationImageSizeLarge'] = 'Stor';

$txt['verificationGDnotsupported'] = 'Din server har ikke GD installeret. Verifications billeder vil blive genereret uden GD.';

$txt['verificationPreview'] = 'Preview Billede';
$txt['verificationPreviewDesc'] = '(Vent venligst imens preview bliver genereret)';

$txt['verificationReadChars'] = 'Du skulle kunne se <b>%s</b> bogstaver i dette billede.';
$txt['verification_brute_force'] = 'Du har brugt antallet af fejlet visuel verification. Du skal vente %s minutter før du kan prøve igen.';
$txt['error_visual_verification_failed'] = 'De bogstaver du skrev, matcher ikke til dem som er vist i billedet.';
// --- End added code ---
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Ambasador on December 13, 2007, 06:33:35 AM
I have a problem both with this mod & the original smf captcha: while working fine in English & Spanish, in Serbian Latin & Cyrilic it doewn't show the image (it does show the translated text). I tried to compare the langpacks but couldn't find where the problem is, could somebody help me, please?
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: motumbo on December 14, 2007, 01:56:34 AM
Quote from: Ambasador on December 13, 2007, 06:33:35 AM
I have a problem both with this mod

See my post above where I say that there is a major bug in this mod.

Don't waste your time with this as it doesn't appear to have been fixed.  At least, there are no posts in this thread indicating it has.

Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Ambasador on December 14, 2007, 03:47:48 AM
I' ve tried it with english and spanish and works fine, and not just with the mod, but also with the original SMF captcha, so I belive the problem is somewhere in the lang files, but I can't detect it (seems a little illogical to be there, right?).

Quote from: motumbo on September 11, 2007, 02:58:46 AM
There is a major bug in this mod.

The captcha code for visual verification is in TWO different places in the private message screen in my installation.  Not only that, but it does NOT work, even when you correctly fill out the captcha information in both places.

If I understood you right, I suggest you go to PersonalMessage.template.php, delete one of the boxes (usually with 2 boxes it gets confused and none works).
Perhaps you have just installed this twice?
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Ambasador on December 14, 2007, 10:17:14 AM
Here's the sollution to my problem, probably will be useful to someone: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=137767.0
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: perro88 on December 23, 2007, 10:40:36 AM
Anyone have a idea how to put this mod working with user email mod at the same time?.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: B.SkiLLs on December 24, 2007, 11:13:22 AM
Can some one please recode and touch this Mod up so that it works on 1.1.4 and to have an option that members DO NOT have to fill out a (captcha) for anything

It would be so much appreciated, i am in need bad of this. Thanks :)


Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Ambasador on December 24, 2007, 05:55:10 PM
Quote from: Triple-X on December 24, 2007, 11:13:22 AM
Can some one please recode and touch this Mod up so that it works on 1.1.4 and to have an option that members DO NOT have to fill out a (captcha) for anything

I think you can do this by yourself, editing the package-info.xml or the modifications.xml file.

PS: Merry Christmas to all of you that celebrate it!
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: izar on January 09, 2008, 12:52:28 PM
Quote from: Triple-X on December 24, 2007, 11:13:22 AM
Can some one please recode and touch this Mod up so that it works on 1.1.4 and to have an option that members DO NOT have to fill out a (captcha) for anything

It would be so much appreciated, i am in need bad of this. Thanks :)



I have the same problem Iand I bont know how to change it

thanks




Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Dorian on January 12, 2008, 09:18:13 AM
I've got a problem with this mod, if I have scripts in the execution chain which contain UTF-8 characters encoding with byte order mark. Is this a bug in the script? (Which I cant find.) Or in PHP?
I'm using Apache on Windows with PHP 5.2.5 (nessecary extensions installed of course, since it works for most themes and languages (no I didn't forget to modify the theme manually)).

Anyone got an idea on this? Would help me a bunch. :)

PS: I am not keen on removing BOM's in ~700 PHP scripts I'm using.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: psy on January 20, 2008, 08:57:25 AM
I really need this mod working with 1.1.4  I tried editing the package-info.xml but when I try to install the package it says it's corrupted.

Please help, my board needs guest posting and i'm getting absoulutely flooded with spam.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: gamerxgirl on January 21, 2008, 01:06:50 PM
Quote from: psy on January 20, 2008, 08:57:25 AM
I really need this mod working with 1.1.4  I tried editing the package-info.xml but when I try to install the package it says it's corrupted.

Please help, my board needs guest posting and i'm getting absoulutely flooded with spam.

I think it's related to the server downtime and some mods and their files got corrupted. We can only hope that the author of this mod will re-upload it. Though you can get it working with 1.1.4 through emulating the version number (search the forums on  how-to). Good luck.
Title: Please upload the mod again
Post by: Geko on January 23, 2008, 02:11:14 AM
Daniel, please upload this mod again. The file got corrupted and it is desperately needed...  :(
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Geko on January 24, 2008, 09:45:49 AM
If Daniel is not going to do it, can someone else please upload the file or give an alterative link to the mod? You would really help :( .
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Geko on January 25, 2008, 04:01:25 AM
Pls.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: izar on January 29, 2008, 03:48:45 AM
Here is it. Bye
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8HD6AK6R (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8HD6AK6R)
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: B.SkiLLs on March 15, 2008, 08:37:44 PM
Quote from: Triple-X on December 24, 2007, 11:13:22 AM
Can some one please recode and touch this Mod up so that it works on 1.1.4 and to have an option that members DO NOT have to fill out a (captcha) for anything

It would be so much appreciated, i am in need bad of this. Thanks :)



Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: mark7144 on March 18, 2008, 08:39:36 PM
Quote from: izar on January 29, 2008, 03:48:45 AM
Here is it. Bye
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8HD6AK6R (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8HD6AK6R)
I've used this but it then Registration > Admin no longer loads.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Zorchenhimer on May 10, 2008, 05:17:31 PM
I can't get this mod working.  I installed it on a local private server with SMF 1.1.4, and it seems to be working fine except for an error in the error log (see below).  When I try to install it on my live site (same configuration, including theme and SMF version) it 'installs' fine, however I cannot access the settings page for it.  When I look in the error log I see this error:

Quote
8: Undefined index: verificationSettingsDesc
File: [path to smf]/smf/Sources/ManageRegistration.php
Line: 137

as well as this one:

Quote
8: Undefined index: verificationVisual
File: [path to smf]/smf/Sources/ManageRegistration.php
Line: 136

On my local server I am getting one error, however it seems to still be working:

Quote
2: imagettftext() [<a href='function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font
File: /var/www/smf/Sources/Verification.php
Line: 946

This is with this mod download: AdvancedVisualVerification_1-2_Fixed.tgz

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Title: Missing characters and colors?
Post by: iRuben on May 11, 2008, 06:45:10 AM
I find it a little strange to see how many people have problems with this mod. I installed it on a relatively fresh 1.1.5 installation with only a few other mods installed (TinyPortal and AutoTooltips/AutoLinktips) and it is working fine.

The only minor problem it gives me is that sometimes (about 1 out of every 5 times) one character less is displayed than it is supposed to. I mean that you can only see 4 characters while there should be 5 and when changing the settings to 3 characters I sometimes see just 2. This isn't a "real problem" because the text says you should see 5 characters, so you can just request a new image if you only see 4, but it is a little annoying.

When I came to this topic to see if anyone else reported this "problem" I noticed a lot of people having troubles with this mod. It is still working/supported?

[Edit]

Since noone replied yet, I thought I'd just edit this post...

Is there any way to change the main (background) color of the verification image so I can match it to my theme?

[Edit 2]

Never mind the color question, already found it in /Sources/Verification.php under:

$background_color = array(234, 237, 243);
$foreground_color = array(64, 101, 136);

Still missing characters though...

[Edit 3]

Okay, finally got the "missing characters" problem solved too. Aparantly my server had troubles with the dymo.ttf font and was unable to display it. When trying to open the font on my Mac, Font Book just crashes. It's weird that I have the exact same problem on another server with a SMF installation that is -not- from the same package, so it seems like the problem with the font is somewhere in the source package maybe? ::)

Anyhow, the mod is working perfectly now. I'll just leave my own problem solving message in here in case someone else is experiencing the same weird behaviour and might use the search function in here. :-)
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: SunRipper on May 26, 2008, 07:00:37 PM
I tried the visual verification mod... http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=907,
but it didn't work on either one of my 2 boards that are running SMF 1.1.5.  These are both clean new boards.

I don't see any images in the preview mode, and I don't see any images when I am trying to register.
Hmmm, is this obvious to anyone?

The features in the admin panel look pretty cool.  I just wish I could get it to work.

Suggestions appreciated.

Richard
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: yulbeast on May 28, 2008, 07:32:09 AM
I have smf 1.1.5 and also had the same problems after installing this mod:
I saw no admin configuration, and the new posts where rejected for not accomplishing with the captcha, but no captcha was shown to the guest, so they would not post.

This is how I could fix it:
=================
I noticed I have a theme which is different from the default theme, so I took a look to the ftp files and noticed that, under the Themes folder, this mod affected only to the default folder, changing files

The solution:
=========
I downloaded to my pc this files from the default theme folder (Themes/default/):
./Themes/default/languages/Modifications.english.php
./Themes/default/Register.template.php
./Themes/default/Post.template.php
./Themes/default/Search.template.php
./Themes/default/PersonalMessage.template.php

Then I looked for this same files, but this time under my custom theme folder (Themes/pnpn115b/)
I found that this theme had his own version of some of that files (all of them but Register.template.php)
Carefully, edited my custom theme files and made the same modifications they had suffered in the default theme. (obviously after backup them).
And ... voila! the mod works.

Surely there are better ways to do this. Maybe I should have my custom theme copied to the default folder BEFORE I install any of this mods, so the installation process would modify it the same way it modified the default theme.

I don't know if this is the standard process for a mod install, to change only the default theme instead of modding all the themes, or at least the one I have set as common for all users.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: ruaduck on May 28, 2008, 12:25:04 PM
for my themes i like i usually only use a style.css file and let the default folder take care of the rest.  Seems to make my modding go a bit easier and the only manual changes i seem to have to do are to language files.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Jade Elizabeth on June 07, 2008, 08:51:39 PM
2: imagettftext() [<a href='function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font
File: /Sources/Verification.php
Line: 946

I'm getting these errors on a clean 1.1.5 installation....how do I fix it?
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: vhs on July 14, 2008, 08:21:49 AM
Same problem here:
imagettftext() [<a href='function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font
File: /Sources/Verification.php
Line: 946


When i switch to default "english" file (not utf8) then mod is working fine, but i have to use polish-utf8 lang file and then there is just blank place in the captcha place.
Please help  :(
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Dorian on July 14, 2008, 11:34:19 AM
Quote from: Alundra on June 07, 2008, 08:51:39 PM
2: imagettftext() [<a href='function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font
File: /Sources/Verification.php
Line: 946

I'm getting these errors on a clean 1.1.5 installation....how do I fix it?
You need to have the fonts used in this mod in some folder, dunno which one right now, maybe just try to reinstall it (remove it via packages manager and then install it) to fix that.

Quote from: vhs on July 14, 2008, 08:21:49 AM
When i switch to default "english" file (not utf8) then mod is working fine, but i have to use polish-utf8 lang file and then there is just blank place in the captcha place.
Please help  :(
Download and open all your language files and remove the Byte-Order-Mark. There's a bug in PHP which causes it to always add the Byte-Order-Mark to the output of the script, no matter what the output is. You can remove the byte order mark, with an UTF-8 compatible Texteditor like Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm). Open the file, select Save as and in the Codepage dropdown select UTF-8 without BOM and save the files with the same name, as they had before. Then upload the language files back to your server.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Jiveturkey on September 10, 2008, 05:18:35 PM
I'm trying to uninstall this mod because it's preventing me from upgrading to 1.1.6 and this is what I got.

1.     Execute Modification     ./index.php     Test successful
2.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Register.php    Test successful
3.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Subs-Graphics.php    Test successful
4.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/Register.template.php    Test failed
5.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Post.php    Test successful
6.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/Post.template.php    Test failed
7.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Search.php    Test successful
8.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/Search.template.php    Test failed
9.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/PersonalMessage.php    Test successful
10.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/PersonalMessage.template.php    Test failed
11.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/ManageRegistration.php    Test successful
12.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/languages/Modifications.english.php    Test successful
13.    Delete File    ./Sources/Verification.php    
14.    Delete Tree    ./Themes/default/ttf_fonts


Any thoughts on how to get this uninstalled?
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: bob on September 11, 2008, 11:50:00 AM
I need this mod because the colored one SMF uses by default doesn't work right on my server.

On one forum, I just backed up the Sources dir and SSI.php and index.php and ran the update anyway. It worked fine ( if it didn't I could just have restored the backed up files).

I diffed the resulting Register.php and Register.php~ files and the only 2 lines that were different involved the captcha code (and one for the version #) and the changes looked fine. It seems to be working fine as well YMMV.


Quote from: Jiveturkey on September 10, 2008, 05:18:35 PM
I'm trying to uninstall this mod because it's preventing me from upgrading to 1.1.6 and this is what I got.

1.     Execute Modification     ./index.php     Test successful
2.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Register.php    Test successful
3.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Subs-Graphics.php    Test successful
4.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/Register.template.php    Test failed
5.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Post.php    Test successful
6.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/Post.template.php    Test failed
7.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Search.php    Test successful
8.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/Search.template.php    Test failed
9.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/PersonalMessage.php    Test successful
10.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/PersonalMessage.template.php    Test failed
11.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/ManageRegistration.php    Test successful
12.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/languages/Modifications.english.php    Test successful
13.    Delete File    ./Sources/Verification.php    
14.    Delete Tree    ./Themes/default/ttf_fonts


Any thoughts on how to get this uninstalled?
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: KahneFan on September 17, 2008, 05:06:33 PM
Is there a version for 1.1.6 yet?
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: jonathanE. on September 29, 2008, 11:55:25 AM
I just tried the available package in 1.1.6 and it works "fine".

The inverted comas is due to the fact that even though it shows an error during install

Quote1.     Execute Code     installverification.php     
2.    Execute Modification    ./index.php    Test successful
3.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Register.php    Test failed
4.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Subs-Graphics.php    Test successful
5.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/Register.template.php    Test successful
6.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Post.php    Test successful
7.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/Post.template.php    Test successful
8.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Search.php    Test successful
9.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/Search.template.php    Test successful
10.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/PersonalMessage.php    Test successful
11.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/PersonalMessage.template.php    Test successful
12.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/ManageRegistration.php    Test successful
13.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/languages/Modifications.english.php    Test successful

it surprisingly works fine afterwards, during the 'Register' process I mean.

Whereas the feature that does not work with Guest post and the YaBB theme I am using. As there is no error related to it, as far as I know, during the installation so I do not know what the problem might be.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: chep on October 23, 2008, 10:15:28 PM
Quote from: motumbo on September 11, 2007, 02:58:46 AM
There is a major bug in this mod.

The captcha code for visual verification is in TWO different places in the private message screen in my installation.  Not only that, but it does NOT work, even when you correctly fill out the captcha information in both places.

I believe one is above the text box where you type your message and the other is just above the submit button.



When did this get fixed? I have an older version but when I download the latest one there is no difference between it and my version. How can I get this fixed?
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: rbw on October 27, 2008, 01:28:23 AM
Hi,
this mod has had issues when trying to upgrade to SMF 1.1.6 from 1.1.5 - the upgrade fails on Register.php, and so does the uninstall of the Advanced Visual Verification mod.  I uninstalled it regardless of the test fail and upgraded my forum.  Now it is back to haunt me, and I'm having issues with posting as a guest, it gives an error from Sources/Post.php saying it needs Sources/Verification.php.

I re-installed the mod and now the CAPTCHA image comes out all screwed up (less than 5 letters at times, and it is impossible to get the letters correct, even when it does give 5 letters).

I have no option but to completely uninstall this, so how do I manually get this totally off my forum for now? :(

Thank you!
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: KahneFan on October 27, 2008, 10:56:22 PM
Quote from: jonathanE. on September 29, 2008, 11:55:25 AM
it surprisingly works fine afterwards, during the 'Register' process I mean.

Unfortunately it still does not appear to work properly with my registration process. I just tried installing it again and I (a guest) can not register with it installed.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: rbw on November 15, 2008, 11:13:30 PM
OK, after a long period of a broken board and no replies I was getting frustrated.  I finally had more than ten minutes to sit down to it and got it manually uninstalled.  Here is the error i was getting:

Fatal error: post2() [function.require]: Failed opening required '[directory]/forum/Sources/Verification.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in [directory]/forum/Sources/Post.php on line 1290

The solution, after uninstalling the mod by the admin panel, is to go into Post.php and remove the code including and between the tags:
      // --- Begin added code - Advanced Visual Verification ---
      
      // --- End added code ---
This did it.  Hopefully nothing else was left behind by it :(
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: ChaosEnergy on December 03, 2008, 03:11:22 PM
QuoteOkay, finally got the "missing characters" problem solved too. Aparantly my server had troubles with the dymo.ttf font and was unable to display it. When trying to open the font on my Mac, Font Book just crashes. It's weird that I have the exact same problem on another server with a SMF installation that is -not- from the same package, so it seems like the problem with the font is somewhere in the source package maybe? ::)

Anyhow, the mod is working perfectly now. I'll just leave my own problem solving message in here in case someone else is experiencing the same weird behaviour and might use the search function in here. :-)

THANKS A LOT!!!!
Now more missing letters, no more filled up error log, now more frustrated user
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: dkounal on January 04, 2009, 08:26:07 PM
Hello, great mod, I got rid of robots but it has some problems.
1. Sometimes you have 4 chars instead of 5
2. I got the following message that does not happen every time:
Quote2: imagettftext() [<a href='function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font
Αρχείο: /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/Sources/Verification.php
Γραμμή: 946
My /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/Themes/default/ttf_fonts has the following fonts:
acidic.ttf
borduu.ttf
cbgb.ttf
corporeaa.ttf
dymo.ttf
fanzine.ttf
jaii.ttf   
kulminoituva.ttf

Any ideas?
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: ArrayInteractive on February 10, 2009, 12:38:54 AM
Requiring captcha for guest posts would be an amazing feature for me. It sounds like this mod will do the trick. Wondering if anyone has had any luck installing it on 1.1.8?

Or are there any other mods that would implement a captcha verification for guest posts?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: acewashere on February 10, 2009, 01:14:18 PM
Quote from: ArrayInteractive on February 10, 2009, 12:38:54 AM
Requiring captcha for guest posts would be an amazing feature for me. It sounds like this mod will do the trick. Wondering if anyone has had any luck installing it on 1.1.8?

Or are there any other mods that would implement a captcha verification for guest posts?

Thanks.

I had this installed on 1.1.7, but when I upgraded to 1.1.8 registration broke.

Removed it and registration worked as normal again. Tried to manually install on 1.1.8 (it would not auto install for me) and wound up breaking the entire forum, had to restore from backup. So now I'm without my favorite mod.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: ArrayInteractive on February 10, 2009, 01:40:15 PM
Damn! Thanks for saving me the trouble though...
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: el_neurotico on February 12, 2009, 09:02:26 AM
Hey,

so there's no other way to prevent bot's from spamming on the forum if guests are allowed to write? Is there any other viable solution for 1.1.8 version of SMF?

Thanks for help.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: eline on June 09, 2009, 05:20:09 PM
tx to iRuben for htions about broken font ;) great tip, big + for u ...
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Chemicaltrails on July 17, 2009, 04:40:11 PM
I downloaded the latest version of advanced visual verification from the customization site and on the first step of installation it warns me that it is not recommended to install the modification because the following file has failed...

./Sources/Register.php Test failed

I then upgraded my forum from 1.1.9 to 1.1.10 thinking that might resolve the problem.  It now says that the advanced visual verification is not compatible with this version.

I'm hoping this "Daniel" guy decides to upgrade the mod.  But I understand if he doesn't.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Narlas on August 06, 2009, 08:51:58 AM
I have forum on 1.1.10 ver.
Advanced Visual Verification 1.2 is not working for me. I tried to use default theme and english language but no captcha images are shown for not registered users. Can u help me? Here ist the list of installed components:

Verification.php~ (83067 bytes)
Verification.php (83052 bytes)
installverification.php (2235 bytes)
readme.txt (1026 bytes)
ttf_fonts/acidic.ttf (49516 bytes)
ttf_fonts/borduu.ttf (9540 bytes)
ttf_fonts/cbgb.ttf (10180 bytes)
ttf_fonts/corporeaa.ttf (8020 bytes)
ttf_fonts/dymo.ttf (21328 bytes)
ttf_fonts/fanzine.ttf (13812 bytes)
ttf_fonts/jaii.ttf (10808 bytes)
ttf_fonts/kulminoituva.ttf (13912 bytes)
install.xml (54223 bytes)
package-info.xml (1180 bytes)

My DB:
Forum version: SMF 1.1.10
Current SMF version: ??
PHP version: 4.3.4
MySQL version: 5.0.67-community-log
Server version: Apache/2.0.59 (Unix)
GD version: bundled (2.0.15 compatible)

Its not in language, i tried everythnig (turn on/off the language, the theme...) and tried everythning mentioned in common topics, nothing helped.
Take a look:
god.czweb.org/index.php?action=post;board=10.0

Dont know what should I do. Thanks for any help.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Chamaeleon on October 11, 2009, 12:39:33 PM
update the Mod. for 1.1.10  ;)
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: titanic007 on November 14, 2009, 06:25:28 AM
This mod is not working on my forum. Check the attached image.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: YoBlink17 on December 29, 2009, 09:05:28 AM
I have two issues. One, users receive the following error msg when trying to register, "Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator." I believe it is because the smf_verfication_user table does not exist in my database. How do I add that table?

Secondly, I don't see the visual verification even though I have it enabled in the admin settings???
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Windwalker on January 05, 2010, 09:27:15 AM
Hello,

I am running SMF 1.1.11 and just wanted to uninstall  Advanced Visual Verification, but in the packet manager, I don't get the "uninstall" option displayed for this mod.
I can only delete it.

Can anyone help me on how to perform the uninstall?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: - danny on March 09, 2010, 12:50:38 PM
any chance of updating this for 1.1.11?
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: tomicko on May 27, 2010, 05:09:00 PM
yes, I'm intersted fo a 1.1.11 version too.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: Liam. on May 27, 2010, 05:19:27 PM
tomicko and aLEX, Daniel15 left SMF early last year, quite a long time ago - I doubt he'd be updating it. But, the version posted here (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=189349.msg2303533#msg2303533) for 1.1.10 should work with 1.1.11.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: munge on September 19, 2010, 10:20:18 PM
bumping this topic... I'm looking to reduce bot registrations and would appreciate feedback on whether this mod is effectively doing that as of September 2010, or have the bots adapted?

any other recommendations for eliminating bots is welcome.
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: amko_sa on February 18, 2011, 10:16:09 AM
Can you make this mod for SMF 2 RC4 or RC5?
Title: Re: Advanced Visual Verification (captcha)
Post by: PHIL_TC on May 07, 2012, 07:52:18 AM
Hi - Can you tell me if this is compatible with 1.1.16 please?

Thanks.