Captcha form

A form with captcha inside the form

This form will take a bit of fiddling around with but anyone should
be able to get it working / personalize it on their server if PHP is installed and if
cookies are enabled in end user's browser.

You can download the whole folder lower down below but please either
read the information on this page, or read it from the downloaded
html document which is the same as this page you are reading now.

How it works

[ if you are not a programmer and do not read from here to the bottom
of this page before you start to fiddle around with this, then it will be
a FRUSTRATING experience and you will be wasting your time
so PLEASE read this page right to the end before downloading anything ]

 

Here we go .....
First of all we need the form so here is the form:


Please insert the requested information below and you may win
TEN MILLION DOLLARS

Company :
  
If you are not a company leave empty
Name:
   Surname:
Address:
ZIP:
   City:   Region
Email:
  
Telephone:
    Mobile  
Comments :

(erases all data inserted up to now )

Ready ? Ok, but before you click 'Send Form' please insert the same letters and numbers you see in this image into the box to your right ->
:

   

 

The above form is the document 'form-and-captcha.html'
which is one of the three files for downloading.

The fields in the form are also repeated in the php document   ' captcha.php '
also included in the download and what you want to make sure of is that
the field names in the form above - OR EVEN IN YOUR OWN FORM are repeated and have the same names inside the captcha.php document.
And as you will see, these are repeated twice in captcha.php, once at the top and then again lower down in the captcha.php document so if you edit any fields in the form, or create your own form, make sure you also edit / add your field names from the form into the captcha.php document.

If you are going to be implementing this in your own form, then you are on your own and I do not offer support for setting up your own forms to work, so if in any doubt on how to insert the captcha calling source into your own form - either just use and modify this form above, or at least do this first and then when you get this form to work, give it a go on your own form.

I do not offer support in this case simply because I really am NOT a php programmer and have just about managed to fiddle this together to get it to work for me - but if you have minimal knowledge of html, which is more than I have - you should be able to get it working. Especially if you examine the form 'form-and-captcha.html' source code, and also the source code in the captcha.php document where there are ample comments to help you on your way.

The third document included for downloading is the captcha image generator 'captcha_image.php'
and in there you don't really need to do anything but just include it with the other two files mentioned above in the same location on your server.

Just by the by, the 'captcha_image.php' is the file that has the colour values of the form and this can be fiddled around with to change the colours and even the lines created in the captcha generated image.
I will be putting up a tutorial on how to do this sooner or later.

 

An idiot's understanding how this more or less works and interacts together.

1]
Once this page : 'form-and-captcha.html'
is loaded in a browser ( from your server and not locally from your HD )
the captcha image is generated by the 'captcha_image.php ' file.

2]
If the user then fills in the form, inserts the captcha generated code into the field and sends it, or even just fills in the captcha code and sends the form empty by clicking the Send Form button, the form verifies that the correct captcha code was inserted.
It does this via the captcha.php file through the variable $_POST["captcha_input"],
and the correct answer is stored in the cookie $_COOKIE["pass"]
The captcha.php file has comments inside it which may be usefull for your reference.

3]
If the inserted code was correct - then the form will be processed by the captcha.php file :
<form action="captcha.php" method="post">
and uses that to elaborate the data and send it off.

4]
If the wrong captcha code was inserted the form will generate an error inviting the user to try again

 

Code that you MUST change to get this working:

I suggest to start with you don't change any fields nor anything else EXCEPT for one thing.

The folder that you will download is named : captchaform

Open it, and open the file : captcha.php
in a text editor

and edit just the destination e-mail address ( your email address to which the form content will be sent to).

This is about half way down the page source:

//sends email via php to the following address
$mailuser = "yourName@yourDomainXYZ1234.com";

Substitute: yourName@yourDomain.com
with your e-mail address and save.

Now upload the whole folder : captchaform
to the root of your website

Open your browser and go to the following URL:
http://www.yourWebsiteName.com/captchaform/form-and-captcha.html

Fill in the form, insert the captcha code, if the form is sent off, check your e-mail to see that you received the content.

If the form is not sent off and you get an error, then either PHP is not installed on your server, or you have cookies turned off in your browser.


Only after you have tested this in this way - and it works - should you start fiddling around with the form-and-captcha.html file to add or modify the fields and then do the same changes in the php file captcha.biz, and if after it does not work - then you messed up somewhere.

Here you can download the folder that contains the three above mentioned files:
Download a free captcha form for your own free use

The file downloaded will appear as : captchaform.zip

UnZip it, and follow the above instructions to give it a go.

 

I would be grateful that if any of the captcha stuf on this website has made your life easier that you place a link to this website to this site to help other users with captcha implementation.
Text for link: How to use Captcha
link URL: http://www.captcha.biz

And this mainly because if you found any of this useful, so will thousands of other non programming webmasters like you and myself and here it really is a case of spreading the word to some good old free stuf.

Thanks

Pete