I'm a professional Joomla developer building many sites for clients with Joomla every year and this is the first review I've written. It's a testament to the quality of this component that I've bothered to register jsut so I can write thsi review.

This is a fantastic component. Like all the CAPTCHA based components it requires some modifications to the Joomla core files. This is a necessary evil I'm afraid and those who complain that it's too complex dont understand this.

In addition to be an excellent component on it's own, the developer has provided information to other developers on how to integrate it with other components. This means that VirtueMart 1.1.3 comes with support for Security Images 5 already baked in.

Well done! Great component.

I downloaded the files and the patch and followed the instructions. Within 10 minutes uploading and patching, (including a little learning) I had the component working perfectly! This is not a simple little plugin but a component that has had a lot of work put into it. I really do like the maths catchpa! Cool. No more daily spam registrations. And it was free! Well done to the developers.

First of all, thanks for an awesome plugin.
Second, please don't try to "wing" it. There are very specific steps you must take and they are all well documented in the Documentation, including pretty pictures for all of us.
NICE JOB!

I have to admit the component itself seems reasonable. Unfortunately, its support is restricted to moderated posts that don't necessarily get approved. I had posted an issue on the support forum and was informed that the post would be moderated. However a week on, and I'm still yet to see my query show up in the forum itself. Upon investigation within the forum, my query apparently "does not exist".

Disappointing ...

Excelent extension. I use it on local machine and on provider michine. Good job. Not so difficult for instalation like said someone. But what about translation? If there is no translation yet I've translating in Russian for myself. I think whithin 3-4 days I will mail result to author also

I've installed it and I am a newbie

Really excellent one.

Thanks

This is an excellent extension that does exactly what it says it does. There is extensive online documentation to help you download the 2 required zip files and to set it up once installed. Just make sure you download the correct files compatible with the version of Joomla you are running.

The first zip file is installed using the Joomla Install method in the Admin back end. Too Easy. It will even tell you when installation has been completed and if it was successful.

The next part is a bit fiddly as you need to unzip the patch file in a folder and then FTP its contents to your website where some 14 Joomla files are replaced by these patched files to enable the Captcha engine to intercept the php script.

Once this is done you simply go to the Joomla Global Configuration manager and SWITCH ON the component. I must admit I did have an issue here as after successful install the option to switch on the component was NOT showing up. After a few hours researching I simply unzipped the patch file again and used FTP to upload the files again. This time it worked!!

The Security Images component has a very powerful and useful back end configuration menu which not only allows you to make configuration changes but also has very useful troubleshooting options. Also there is a range of different Captcha core or plug-in supplied that give you lots of different options to display graphical letters.

On the front end it works very well and integrates well with the register,login and contact pages.

I believe when Joomla V1.6 is released the installation will be even easier as the patch files will no longer be necessary.

Overall 10 out of 10 for this fine product.

I experienced no difficulties with security images whatsover. It does all that it is meant to do.

I think it would be a improvement if the image could be placed over the input box, instead of alongside. I achieved that with a hack anyway.

Thank you very much for an making this package available.

Ill support an Average rating.

I downloaded and tried for about an hour after reading the directions forward and backwards to get this up and running with no luck. I downloaded the two packages that seem to be required. The com itself and the core hacks package. Then I went through the step by step of turning the captcha on. No luck. (rinse, repeat, no luck)

As for my background I have probably downloaded and installed hundreds of different mods and coms over the years including items like CB and Jomsocial. I can't think of any others that I was unable to get working after it was installed...

This com does seem like it would be a huge asset for any web site so I will make another attempt (and review) when a new release comes out.

Also I would like to suggest keeping the files required to install the system close to each other. Not one on this page and one on the other side of the web site.

It is a high recommend plugin, but the installation with severally upload the 14 files is not a nice solution to install a plugin.

Please change it in the future!
Thanks

I installed this plug-in with intent to use it to secure the site and it didn't work as I expected so I removed it.

For whatever reason I looked in my /media folder a few days ago and noticed 2 folders in there (which should not have been there, I created that folder for other stuff, I don't know why these folders went in there?!?!?)

com_securityimages
system

Since they should not have been there and I'm not using securityimages on the site I moved these folders (I did not delete them just in case).

After I removed these two folders I was not able to use ANY of the administrator menus and it broke or changed several aspects of the site. I put these two folders back and everything is working again thankfully.

Either this is a nasty bug or it's potentially a very big problem in general. If a plug-in is removed should it not remove itself and not leave stuff behind like that? Especially things that can completely break a site.

I attempted to go to the support page to look if others also had this problem or if I could get a fix but the support site doesn't look like it's online right now.

Could be a good extension, but beware of these problems.

its a great and very usefull extension

maybe its not the extension more easily for install and setup but i think nor is it so hard

if you can't see the caracters, you can change the text size, select another font, set the text angle to 0, select another background image or buy you a glasses

i can only claim the patch to the form to send to a friend

again thanks walter

I can't barely see the caracters on those images
If I was a client, I would skip from registration obviously

I'm sure the end result is great, but I cannot get it to work after 30 minutes of trying. I have created about 20 Joomla sites of varying complexity, so I know what I'm doing. I instaleld the component, uploaded patch, saved config, made sure I had the correct versions of plugins, the plugin is enabled, I have registrations set to Yes - I have followed directions (what little there are) perfectly and still no captcha on registration. Since I already "patched" my core Joomla files, I feel like I'm trapped with this component so I'll have to sift through the forums of their site to find out why this is not working. Could be user error, but I'm not the first to say that this has terrible installation instructions.

I think this is a great extension, easy to install and configure. Well done!

I'm fighting this extension for more than 3 days now making sure, I can get it working.

It very well might be the case with some users who live in the perfect hosting world.

Download link takes you to the general website where you have to wait for twitter, amazon links to get their responses. Than you will see a HUGE banners that is rather pointless. If you are lucky to find the file that you think you need and try to install, you will learn pretty soon, you have to get more staff from developer's website. (Why? - to read Amazon adds.) and so on and on and on.

Rather than try to fight this component, wait, captcha is a part of Joomla 1.6 (finally)

It's advisable by me to go ahead and use this extension. Highly recommended. The draw back for it, the installation and the correct files that need to be download and install.

I myself a bit confuse at the starting point, but when you take a deep breath, you'll gonna love this extension. Just don't forget to refer to their forum on the Documentations.

Once you find the right page to download and find the wiki to explain you have to ftp files to specific directories, it works great. Love the controls.

Works great with DFContact, though.
If it produced valid XHTML I would have rated "excellent".

I tried all the captcha appz that you can find on extensions.joomla.org
I can assure u that this is the best.
Works with 1.5.8 and i just installed it on 1.5.9
Works excellent.

P.S

Works right out of the box ( as long as you follow the instructions)
You can change captcha image templates as well as make it sound captcha.

What else can we ask for?

Joomla Team, this extension should be defiantly a part of Joomla core..