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Thanks for the answer.

But I have now tried to figure out this GD i have been reading about, and realize that that should be working on the server. I have installed a gallery earlier that is in need of GD, and that works with the thumbnails.

Any more ideas what to check up? Or have I misunderstood something about GD. Still can't figure the problem out my self.

Thanks in advance!

@ Websith above:

Thanks for the modified install program and English instructions at your site

http://www.sol22.com/elibrary/1-web-development/113-bigo-captcha-extention-for-joomla-158.html

Worked like a charm!

Captcha doesn't show up in yvcomment...

Me too.

The code in the HTML for the image reads:

So the code doesn't even specify an image to use!

You have "Delay loading captcha image" option set: img source URL is set by jscript code, when "text of comment" field gets the focus.

Ah, thanks for that explanation, Yuri.

It doesn't solve the problem, though, so I'll have to go for a different Captcha (unless someone knows the solution?).

What's about Captcha for yvComment, see the article for the alternative Captcha: "Using JCCreCaptcha with yvComment".

Unfortunately, that site is not responding at the moment.

I tried OSTWidgets, and that seems to work perfectly adequately, thanks.

I've edited the link above. Now it should work.

Bigo Captcha image doesn't show when I choose the generic editor for yvComment. It works fine when the wysiwyg editor is enabled.

The image has URL
so you may compare the URLs in two cases and
you may open the URL of the "bad image" in a separate browser Tab to see maybe some error messages... or you may even download that "bad image" and look into it's code....

@ Websith above:

Thanks for the modified install program and English instructions at your site

http://www.sol22.com/elibrary/1-web-development/113-bigo-captcha-extention-for-joomla-158.html

Worked like a charm!

That link is broken

Is there any other link that will step me through setting up a captcha on my Joomla Contact page?

Captcha by Bigo for JOOMLA 1.5.9 - 28th January 2009

I have tried all the other which I could not get to work properly. So I tried the Bigo version. I just about managed to get it to work even though I'm no php coder.

I tried all sorts of ways to get this to work both in my register page and my contact page. I trawled the Joomla forum for hours to find the information that people have tried to use to get it to work. I have put together this little package in English for you.

After hours and hours of trial and error I managed to get it to work in JOOMLA 1.5 **** This version is for JOOMLA 1.5.9 ****

***WARNING***

Before you start you should know that some Joomla core files are hacked, so backup your originals first! The way I do it is to rename the existing file:- for example default.php to default-original.php and then upload the hacked file. You can always delete the new one and rename your old one back to default.php if it doesn't work.

Install instructions

1. Unzip the package first!

2. Install the plugin as usual via your admin panel (plugin_bigcaptcha.zip) (Make sure you enable the plugin as all are installed disabled)

3. Replace all the files that you find in the files folder. (I have left the directory structure alone so you know where to find all the files and don't forget to backup your old ones just in case!)

*** DO NOT just copy the folders across! copy each individual file across ***

4. Login into admin and go to your each one of your contact records and at the bottom of the Contact Parameters section click 'Use Captcha': No, then click Apply and then click Yes and save it to be sure.

5. That should be it!

If you have the 'System - Cache' plugin turned on you must 'Clean Cache' first before you go look at your lovely shiny new simple captcha plugin in your registration form and your contact form.

The only drawback I have seen is that if a user gets the captcha word entry wrong they will have to input it all again. I don't how to php so I guess I will just have to wait until somebody with the right knowledge does it!

many thanks to bigo for this.

Hacked Files List

Contact Form
* administrator/components/com_contact/contact_items.xml (This has the extra parameter to enable Bigo)
* components/com_contact/controller.php (This has the call code for the captcha simply added to the bottom of the file)
* components/com_contact/views/contact/tmpl/default_form.php (This has the embedded captcha image in the form)
User Registration Form
* components/com_user/controller.php
* components/com_user/views/register/tmpl/default.php


Contact Image

It seems that the new 1.5.9 version will now show the contact image, the previous version 1.5.8 didn't work!

best regards
pete brooks
http://www.sol22.com

Hi, I'm attaching to this message the last version that I could find.

The file has name: "Bigo_Captcha_1_5_9.zip" and it has some instructions about how to install the Plugin (see install.html file inside the archive):

Please note: I had to remove 4 fonts from "plugin_bigocaptcha.zip\plg_bigocaptcha\plugins\system\Captcha04\fonts" directory to decrease the size of the package to 500kbytes (the forum restriction). See these four fonts in my next message (fonts.zip file)