phpmyfaq 160

[jazcyk]

they must be drowned too!

What about a slash zero

The graphics is generated from standard .ttf fontfiles, so I you know such font .. There are places on in Internet where you can download thousands of free fonts. Most is crap but some might work fine with phpmyfaq captchas.

[david_de]

"Every font you will find here was created by a programmer and is free." quote from their About page. These are easy to read so it may defeat the purpose?

http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download

[matteo]

I can see in the devblog that you did this now.
What files should I replace?

Hi jazcyk,
I apologize for my delay, the file is: [PATH_TO_PMFINSTALL]/inc/captcha.php

Please, try also to modify temporarly this line below, in [PATH_TO_PMFINSTALL]/ask.php:

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'msgCaptcha' => $PMF_LANG['msgCaptcha'],

as:

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'msgCaptcha' => $PMF_LANG['msgCaptcha']."<br/>(".implode(" ", $captcha->letters).")",

I think this would help you to see what is the subset of characters used for randomly generating the captcha code.

Ciao,
Matteo

[matteo]

I have not had any problems so far in my limited testing of 160 RC but I did in the beta 160. I can only assume I am either very lucky now or something changed.

Hi david_de,
FYI nothing is changed in the capthca class design, only bug fixing in the whole of PMF 1.6.0 code.
Ciao,
Matteo

[jazcyk]

There is nothing to apologize. I know from our own business how important BETA-testing is for a good result. And as you provide this software for free, I think that I should do that at least.

I don't understand the change in ask.php and don't see any difference?
Was it the idea that the subrange of characteres to be used should be displayed to the user?

The 'O' <> '0' equalization seems to work fine.

[jazcyk]

problems with 'slashed zero' is that in a few languages 'Ø' actually is a letter! That applies to Danish (my own language) for instance! So I would use such font as it would confuse Danish users!!

[matteo]

I don't understand the change in ask.php and don't see any difference?
Was it the idea that the subrange of characteres to be used should be displayed to the user?

Yes, it is
I've no experience about captcha robots so I do not know if presenting the user the subset of chars would be an issue. This is the reason why currently that (simple) code is not under CVS: it is just an opportunity for thinking about it.

[jazcyk]

viewtopic.php?p=11725#11725

[matteo]

it does not seem to work!

Maybe it is printed outside the visible 'window'?
But it can be added to .css and .tpl. files if needed..

Here is the effect for viewing the basket of characters (see above for the simple code modification of ask.php):