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OSOLCaptcha, by Sreekanth Dayanand - Joomla Extension Directory

Introduction

Captcha, Site Security

Captcha for joomla core and custom forms.Inserts captcha in registration,contact,reset password, remind username forms on enabling this plugin.To add captcha in custom forms without changing any existing codes or admin settings, follow the steps mentioned below.
Just have to follow 3 steps for core forms.
1.install the plugin
2.publish the plugin .
3.Check the 5 forms(mentioned above).
OSOLCaptcha Version 2 and above developed for joomla 2.5 and 3 uses regexp and AJAX verification .if the captcha doesnt appear in any of the core forms, you need to edit osolCaptcha/coreForms.php and update the regexp for the particular form based on the template you are using.


---Important step for Custom forms/Non core Joomla forms---

If you are familiar with regexp ,you could add OSOLCaptcha for any forms.For this you need to add a file in 'osolCaptcha/nonCoreForms' folder.you can check 'virtuemart.php' to see how to set regexp for any non core form.

PS: Inorder to have this plugin insert captcha ,the form should have an id or name and a submit button inside 'form' tag.Though by default it usually will have,I am explicitly mentioning it because I have seen users developing custom forms and template overrides without name or id attribute and compalining that the captcha oesnt work there.

It is recommended that this be done by coders or with their help though installing and publishing the plugin could be done by anyone(which in turn will add the captcha to the core forms mentioned above)

Further there is a layer of backend spam protection with the help of botscout api which could prevent even human spams to an extend.We reccomend you to enable this as well.

Currently there are 2 limitations for this plugin

1.If the html part is customized for comuser,modlogin or com_contact,it may not work.Since this is aimed for non techy joomla users it wont affect them as they dont edit any files.However if there is a template override with form id/name change and submit button tag change you should edit
plugins/system/osolcaptcha/osolCaptcha/coreForms.php
and change the 2 variables for that form properly

'formId' =>
'tagToPlaceCaptchaBefore' =>

Enabling auto add for modlogin(not available from version 2.0 onwards) is subject to conditions and is disabled by default.if you enable it, make sure that it is in a unique position ,position must be any of these('left','right','top','user2','user3') .The position occupied by modlogin should not contain any other modules

I have included a link to the download page of this plugin with the captcha image.You are free to remove it,though I will be happy to have that link with the captcha image :)

This is my first extension to JED.Any suggestions and help on improving this plugin will be much appreciated

PS:Please check the technical requirements section and FAQs section in the download page of the plugin,first if you are having any issues with the plugin

AJAX verification

I have been inundated with spambots sending useless messages to the 'contact' form and was looking for a new form solution to use instead that included Captcha. I was interested to see that this appeared to add captcha to the existing contact form without any hacks, so thought I'd at least give it a try first. Well, blow me - it worked perfectly first time! Am delighted. Will know if it has effectively stops the spam very soon.

lovely jubly



Posted on 04 June 2010
installed and working perfectly within minutes, thanks to the developers :)

I love this



Posted on 04 June 2010
It's just so easy to set up and modify, I don't know why it doesn't have a higher rating.Excellent in my book.
I have been testing a lot of different solutions and this one is the first to actually work "out-of-the-box". Others always had some sort of problem or the support just wasn't there. I have the newest version of Joomla! 1.5.18 and I have not encountered any issues yet. "Thank You!

"

Marvelous



Posted on 25 May 2010
This plugin installs with great ease, works very well and the technical support response from the author is VERY QUICK and sorts out an issue I encountered, of my own making when doing the set-up parametres.



I chose to enable the "Administrator Pass Phrase" in the set-up and when I activated the plugin, it logged me out and I could not access the back end.



The solution was simple, either do not activate the "Administrator Pass Phrase" or if you choose to do so, then you can access your site through the address: http://yourjoomlasite/administrator/?osolPP='pass phrase you set'



This in itself is an exceptional additional security measure for any Joomla site.



Well done to the OSOLCaptcha developer. Thank you!



Here is looking forward to not getting any more SPAM through my contact page on my site.

Great job!



Posted on 20 May 2010
Download + Install + Settings = 5 minutes , and it is working correctly!



Thanks for sharing!

A must have



Posted on 13 May 2010
Already tried almost all the others captcha plugins.

But this time, I found THE plugin !

I'm really impress by this plugin, it dose the job as the dev said.

Efficient, simple and really easy if you need to implement it on others forms.

A must have
Hi Nice plugin fer sure, working good on Reset Password, Remind Username and Contact, but not working on JA Highslide Register pop-up Create an account, which is where we really need to create a roadblock. Would love a fix for this.
Owner's reply: captcha will auto add only in core joomla forms (without template overrides).JA Highslide Register pop-up is not part of joomla core and so you need to use the php block mentioned in the documentation page.You can however set botscout options and will avail the passive spam protection for registration since the registration form has a field named 'email'
I have been bombarded by spammers signing up for accounts on my site with bogus e-mail accounts over the last few weeks. I've been using an e-mail verifier to manually check them and delete them on a case-by-case basis. I finally decided to bite the bullet and install a captcha on my registration form. I tried a few different options out and found small faults with all of them, except this one. It was easy to install and it worked right after hitting enable. I know that most users find Captcha fields annoying, but it's worth the pain to keep your site spam free.



Great plugin. Highly recommend it.
Hi, I found this plugin super easy to install and appears to work like a charm, but for one critical bug. The captcha image image appears as a broken-link picture, i.e. there's a box with a question mark, because the image file is not loading. I checked my file/folder permissions for the plugin, and changed them to match other plugin ownership (chown/chmod). But this hasn't yet fixed the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing this?
Owner's reply: Please read the documentation page completely especially FAQs section when you have any issues with the plugin.If you dont get an answer there,you can post your queries through the comments form in the documentation page or our website's contact us form.This is not the place to ask for help or support

OSOLCaptcha

Version:
3.1
Developer:
Sreekanth Dayanand
Last updated:
Sep 14 2017
7 years ago
Date added:
Mar 11 2010
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
p
Compatibility:
J3
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Uses Joomla! Update System

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