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Has anyone got a solution to install CAPTCHA on the standard Joomla contact form?

I've tired searching here and I can't find anything on it. I guess I'd use Cedric Walter's security images, but I've never been able to install it right.

Any tips? I am getting massive amounts of contact form Spam and it's really annoying.

using J 1.0.13

Thanks!

I would love to see a workable solution also as there seems to be robots able to navigate to and fill out the message part of the form only, usually with gibberish. Irritates my club members who need to have public available contact information. Comcast will also block you for the spam and won't unblock you unless you have a note signed by Bush. While on the subject I wish for something the same for the mosDirectory component. At least there should be a way to force other fields to be filled out?

I have been using bad behavior bot but it only seems to partially work. To many get through and I need to eliminate them.

maybe ull give chronoforms a go...
with captcha function....

check this in the extensions area...

CB Contacts at joomlapolis does this. But it requires CB 1.1 to run, and for captcha to be integrated the CB plugin Captcha 2.0.
So if you are not running already CB it might be a little overkill.

The best, by far and the most simple for contact or form piece we have found for Joomla is ChronoForms (aka ChronoContact). It is super easy to setup, lightweight and fast loading and works great, everytime.

It is also highly customizable, so if you are a php or js guru, you can add all kinds of fun things to your forms.. and best of all, the support is phenomenal!

Also, did I mention that make a form is as easy as dragging the 'name' field into a new form box!!! It's very visual in its design and makes it great for novices or pros alike. We highly recommend them. That is hard to beat for a free component!

We also use their ChronoComments component, which we found much better than JomComment or the others (it's much faster loading and the coding is more clean).

You can check them out here: http://chronoengine.com
Check out the ChronoForms component here: http://www.chronoengine.com/component/c ... eased.html
And the Tutorials are here: http://www.chronoengine.com/tutorials/18-tutorials.html

Best wishes and don't forget to pass on anything you find useful to others in these forums.. this is Open Source baby !
Cheers
J

Thanks SO much for posting about ChronoForms. I'm going to test it out now. Do they have CAPTCHA?

Yes, they have captcha, two versions (with/without fonts!) We use that component exclusively for all contact, 'sign up' and similar forms..

Glad to hear it might work out for you as well!

J

Once you sign up for the forums there, drop me your user name via PM here and we'll do what we can to pitch in help, or find someone who can
Our username on their forum is revive

Hiya

This is all good, but the original question still remains:

Has anyone got a solution to install CAPTCHA on the STANDARD Joomla contact form?

Do we have a solution?

I found this, but I guess its for 1.5, and my implementation didn't work.

viewtopic.php?p=980703&sid=eb6e42851ba2af575e1d472e6a7d537b#p980703

The implementation from jhawkwood is for 1.0.x series. To use reCaptcha (http://recaptcha.net/), requires setting up an account with them. It also looks like you need to set up your public and private keys and add a php file to your Joomla install. You might also ask at (http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/recaptcha/) for a registration component version that works with your version of Joomla. Start there, get that working, then try the two file mods for the contact form that jhawkwood posted.

I have not tried any of this to see if it works as I don't use the Joomla contact form, instead I use a rather old mosDirectory ( probably a security risk by now) component for contacts. I still had to modify that to add a captcha and require all fields to be filled out (thanks Mr. security minded developer for not doing this in the first place).

Maybe you can allow only registered users to use the contact form, and require those users when registering to click on the link sent by email activating their account. This might cut down some on spam.

*** Not sure why the Joomla developers were/are so pig headed on adding a captcha component to Joomla. Debates on how effective it actually is or isn't aside, it seems many Joomla users would like to see this built in to Joomla to help protect both the contact form and the registration form, so why not offer it built in? There is open source code on sourceforge that I'm sure could be integrated into Joomla fairly easily by a developer. Why not also enable administrators to set some or all form fields as required. My experience with the bots was they only looked to fill the message box. ***

Hi
please read my post viewtopic.php?f=46&t=443446, you will get solution of this problem.
It's easy to implement.

two things. your link doesnt work in that post and the other is that K2 is a J1.5.x component. this is a J1.x forum

There is some problem in link address, now it is corrected.
Sorry for posting in wrong forum, I will take care in future.
I am talking about joomla 1.5 plug in,There may be some people get benefit of this post.