Joomla integrated captcha not working?

[Webdongle]

Have you registered that url on http://www.google.com/recaptcha ? each code is specific to the site(unless you register all your sites to one code).

[mwweb]

Yes. I've tried it's own key and a global. Neither works. Talk about frustrating!

[TDZWeb]

Hi sorry for bumping an old thread but its right on topic.

I am getting this problem now and traced it to the ajax javascript. The URL is set to http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js even in SSL mode. All the other elements in the reCaptcha box are loaded from https URLs. Anyone else have this problem?

Site registration url is: https://www.tdz.no/component/users/?view=registration

PS: oh and Joomla version is 2.5.4

[EE Photo]

I also still got the same problem with the recaptcha on Joomla 2.5.4.

[TDZWeb]

Are the hackers gone now?

I guess this is a case for the bug squad, so I posted there.

[nicolebh]

It's now September and I am having the same problem as listed several times above. Richard's line 25 fix did not work for me. Just launched this fresh joomla 2.5 install. Anyone get anywhere with this yet?

[Pesto]

I am having the same problem. public and private key set. I am just trying to get it to work on the register page. The only extension I have installed is JEvents.

site is bizcal365.com

All I see is Captcha* on the Reg.

TIA

Pete

[jkeifer]

Unfortunately, none of the above solutions worked for me.

After a bit of experimenting and troubleshooting, I have worked out the solution for my site at ribitus.com.

I thought I would share this just in case someone else has the same issue that I did.

I simply added this line to the end of my template's styles.css file:

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/* Fix the positioning problem with the recaptcha in the contact form */
#recaptcha_area { display: inline-block; }

For some reason, the text (Captcha *) was displaying, but the actual captcha text-box was out in space somewhere.

Adding the reference for the #recaptcha_area to my styles.css solved the problem.

[Webdongle]

...
I simply added this line to the end of my template's styles.css file:

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/* Fix the positioning problem with the recaptcha in the contact form */
#recaptcha_area { display: inline-block; }

...

Yep, many of the problems mentioned are due to badly written custom Templates.

[dukke]

Hi,

I had the same problem, so I went to firebug to see if any errors where showing on the console. There was an unrelated error there that had to do with me removing the font size changer thing of the template. After I fixed this bug the recaptcha was also fixed and started to appear.

So, the error was a javascript error what I had to do was edit the file "<site dir>/templates/beez_20/javascript/md_stylechanger.js" (I was using beez_20 template)
and comment the following line (at the end of the file):
window.addEvent('domready', addControls);

the line was changed to this:
/*window.addEvent('domready', addControls);*/

[joliuko]

Hi,

I had the same problem, so I went to firebug to see if any errors where showing on the console. There was an unrelated error there that had to do with me removing the font size changer thing of the template. After I fixed this bug the recaptcha was also fixed and started to appear.

So, the error was a javascript error what I had to do was edit the file "<site dir>/templates/beez_20/javascript/md_stylechanger.js" (I was using beez_20 template)
and comment the following line (at the end of the file):
window.addEvent('domready', addControls);

the line was changed to this:
/*window.addEvent('domready', addControls);*/

Thanks a lot that helped me a lot!

[christian4u]

I was trying to speedup my site and found that my mootools was slowing down page loads, searching on the internet I found that if I went to: libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php and modified the file with the following code, I was going to get some speed improvemente witch I did. But my Captcha will not work with this code:

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// Generate script file links
foreach ($document->_scripts as $strSrc => $strAttr)
{
    // Code to disable mootools for your site (still loads it for your admin)
    // Written by Brad Markle w/ InMotionHosting.com
    $ex_src = explode("/",$strSrc);
    $js_file_name = $ex_src[count($ex_src)-1];
    $js_to_ignore = array("mootools-core.js","mootools-more.js");
    if( in_array($js_file_name,$js_to_ignore) AND substr_count($document->baseurl,"/administrator") < 1 AND $_GET['view'] != 'form')
        continue;

    $buffer .= $tab . '<script src="' . $strSrc . '"';
    if (!is_null($strAttr['mime']))
    {
        $buffer .= ' type="' . $strAttr['mime'] . '"';
    }
    if ($strAttr['defer'])
    {
        $buffer .= ' defer="defer"';
    }
    if ($strAttr['async'])
    {
        $buffer .= ' async="async"';
    }
    $buffer .= '</script>' . $lnEnd;
}

[softology3d]

Mine did not work initially too, I transferred the site again through site transfer wizard and setup a new database. It started to work fine after that.

Hope this helps.

[bandelier]

I realize this is a late post to this topic, but I'm relatively fresh to Joomla. I just upgraded a client site from 1.5 to the current version, and the re-captcha does not appear on the site's main contact form - even when enabled in the contact management settings. The plugin is enabled, selected in the options for the contact management settings under the form tab. Still, nothing. The text "Captcha*" appears, but does not have anything inside the div tag which is just:

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<dt><label id="jform_captcha-lbl" for="jform_captcha" class="hasTip required" title="Captcha::Type in the textbox what you see in the image.">Captcha<span class="star">&#160;*</span></label></dt>

<dd><div id="dynamic_recaptcha_1"></div></dd>

Any help is appreciated! We're getting some abusive spam & want to eliminate it if possible.

[Prellyan]

a bit of a different one ...

the global setting in joomla admin is the problem...

i set it to recaptcha and save and it returns to "none" each time rather than update with recaptch as the tool

any thoughts?

cheers

[newtampaseo]

The same issue appeared for me on non-secure...

const RECAPTCHA_API_SERVER = "http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api";
const RECAPTCHA_API_SECURE_SERVER = "https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api";

The API_SERVER in Joomla default code was wrong and I updated to above. RECAPTCHA now displayed on my site.

[alikon]

from issue tracker:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... 76&start=0

[TDZWeb]

The plugin will still not handle SSL correctly. When the site uses SSL, fsockopen must precede $host with "ssl://" and port must be set to 443, and the verify server has to be set to use "https://". Otherwise browsers will raise warnings of mixed secure and unsecure content.

[razor7]

The plugin will still not handle SSL correctly. When the site uses SSL, fsockopen must precede $host with "ssl://" and port must be set to 443, and the verify server has to be set to use "https://". Otherwise browsers will raise warnings of mixed secure and unsecure content.

I don't think so, because in line 68, the script is included into an <script> tag in the header section of the HTML code, thats all, as any other JS script, not downloaded at all...

If you mean method _recaptcha_http_post, all I can see is an unsecured standard port 80 connection to host api-verify.recaptcha.net using fsockopen, thats allways works regardless of the SSL site config!

[lrfandet]

I have had the same problem only for the last few days. I'm not using ssl, I am using default templates, I had not changed anything recently.

Since this occurred I have updated to Joomla 2.5.14, but I still have the same problem with the text-box and recaptcha plug-in being absent from User Registration in Beez5. I see the word Captcha but there is no text-box and no Recaptcha image displayed anywhere on the form. The window sliders indicate that Windows is not aware of any page content beyond the edge of the screen.

[TDZWeb]

The plugin will still not handle SSL correctly. When the site uses SSL, fsockopen must precede $host with "ssl://" and port must be set to 443, and the verify server has to be set to use "https://". Otherwise browsers will raise warnings of mixed secure and unsecure content.

I don't think so, because in line 68, the script is included into an <script> tag in the header section of the HTML code, thats all, as any other JS script, not downloaded at all...

If you mean method _recaptcha_http_post, all I can see is an unsecured standard port 80 connection to host api-verify.recaptcha.net using fsockopen, thats allways works regardless of the SSL site config!

It may "work", but Firefox and Chrome at least throws up a big red warning screen asking for confirmation to proceed due to the webpage mixing secure and insecure content, probably because the script served uses urls based on what protocol is used to fetch it. The plugin should correctly detect http/https and use the appropriate protocols and ports. Google readily serves the recaptcha api either http or https. It should not be more than a dozen more lines of code to do it.

[razor7]

The plugin will still not handle SSL correctly. When the site uses SSL, fsockopen must precede $host with "ssl://" and port must be set to 443, and the verify server has to be set to use "https://". Otherwise browsers will raise warnings of mixed secure and unsecure content.

I don't think so, because in line 68, the script is included into an <script> tag in the header section of the HTML code, thats all, as any other JS script, not downloaded at all...

If you mean method _recaptcha_http_post, all I can see is an unsecured standard port 80 connection to host api-verify.recaptcha.net using fsockopen, thats allways works regardless of the SSL site config!

It may "work", but Firefox and Chrome at least throws up a big red warning screen asking for confirmation to proceed due to the webpage mixing secure and insecure content, probably because the script served uses urls based on what protocol is used to fetch it. The plugin should correctly detect http/https and use the appropriate protocols and ports. Google readily serves the recaptcha api either http or https. It should not be more than a dozen more lines of code to do it.

Oh, I got it!, please fill in aa bug report with some screenshots, that's the correc t way to raise awareness of bugs!

[Webdongle]

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... 29&start=0

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... 53&start=0

[trogladyte]

I got the patch off http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... 76&start=0 but I have absolutely no idea how to apply it. Can anyone help a non-coder please?

[Surel]

I got the patch off http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... 76&start=0 but I have absolutely no idea how to apply it. Can anyone help a non-coder please?

You need to find the reCaptcha folder in the Plugins folder of your Joomla install. There you edit the php file. You open the patch file, copy the lines that are marked as + and paste them into the php file in the reCaptcha folder instead of the lines that are marked as - in the patch file.


The patch works on a clean install of joomla 3.2 with default template. Just tried it.

The problem seems to be mostly caused by some template troubles. The change in the Google api seems to be causing troubles to the templates. I had reCaptcha working on a Joomla 2.5 install with PixelDot template. It stopped working recently. Patch is not helping. It just shows reCaptcha*.

Similarly on a site with Joomla 3.2 clean install the reCaptcha doesnt work. When the patch is applied it starts to work. When different template is applied. The reCaptcha stops working. When I turn back to default template, the reCaptcha shows up but with overflow.

So I guess the changes in the google API cause some trouble with the templates. Would be nice if anyone could hint where could be the trouble most probably in the templates. Thx.

[Webdongle]

@Surel

I am not setup to apply patches from github ... could you attach the patched file please ? You may need to rename it from .php to .xyz to attach it

[leolam]

Patch for 3.2.0 is posted here and is also valid as posted on the tracker for Joomla 2.5 seemingly. http://docs.joomla.org/J3.2:The_reCaptc ... Joomla_3.2 This patch works fine for J3.2.0 and must work fine for 2.5. as well if you just change sthe API url's as posted

Leo

[Surel]

When I run the site in debug mode the reCaptcha reappears.

The reCaptcha works with default clean install and default template.

It doesn't work with non default template. However, once I apply debug mode. It reappears. Anyone having suggestion to where could I find the problem and solve it? Txh.

[Webdongle]

Template override in the custom template ?

[Surel]

Template override in the custom template ?

I am not that skilled in php to know what is wrong just like that. What I have atm:

1) When I run the non-default template in debug mode, the reCaptcha shows up and works just fine

2) Looking at the difference in the html, the problem is that when not in debug mode the one of the two reCaptcha javascripts does not load in the head and the style is not generated as well. I.e. this is missing in the head:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/cha ... 15&lang=en">
<style type="text/css">

My questions are thus:

1) What change does running the website in debug mode make, that it changes the head.
2) Where could I find in the template what is repressing the javascript to load.

thx.