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Re: Better Veriword Captcha Display

BobRay — Dec 04, 2008, 05:37 PM

Thanks for the kind words. I wish I could make that claim.

I use NuSphere’s PhpED as my primary code editor. It has a whole modx install as one project, and Revo as another. It will do a search of the entire MODx codebase in about 5-10 seconds (a little longer for a regex search). When the search is done, it shows each found line in a list in the Search Results pane and, if you click on one, it loads the file for editing and puts the cursor on that line in less than a second.

As a bonus, in the Pro version, I get code highlighting, code folding, multi-file regex search and replace, a db browser/editor, a code explorer, ftp, a zillion keyboard shortcuts, a built-in php debugger, code autoformatting, and a NuSoap Client. If I right-click on a function call, it will offer to take me to the function declaration -- even if it’s in a different file. If I right-click on an include file name, it will offer to open the include file. If I start typing a variable name, it will show me a list of variables in the current file to select from.

I couldn’t live without it. Someday I’ll do a review of it for Bob’s Guides.

I should mention that many, if not all, of these capabilities are available in PhpEclipse for free. I happen to like the PhpED user interface better (and it’s a one-step install/upgrade) but many people swear by the Eclipse platform.

Re: Better Veriword Captcha Display

dev_cw — Dec 04, 2008, 05:16 AM

Nice tip, bookmarked

BobRay is becoming quite an encyclopedia of modx code (old and new), I am impressed that he knew all those code bits off the top of his head (I would have been opening files and searching for hours). Looks like another team member who ’eats php for breakfast’

Re: Better Veriword Captcha Display

sinbad — Dec 04, 2008, 12:51 AM

btw, for the standard modx capacha you can simply type your words in lower case. I use this modified capacha from devtrench and don’t want to lose users due to frustration so bob’s solution is perfect...

Re: Better Veriword Captcha Display

sinbad — Dec 04, 2008, 12:47 AM

No, thank YOU for checking. This works well. Guess we have both tested. sorry don’t have WLPE.
Thank you very much!

Re: Better Veriword Captcha Display

mrhaw — Dec 04, 2008, 12:46 AM

Thank you BobRay!!

Re: Better Veriword Captcha Display

BobRay — Dec 04, 2008, 12:37 AM

Quote from: sinbad at Dec 04, 2008, 06:30 AM

. . . however the manager capacha gives an error in the related file. mind trying again that one?

Oops, missing right bracket and right parend. It should be:

elseif (strcasecmp($_SESSION['veriword'],$captcha_code) != 0) {

(fixed in post above also -- I hope).

Thanks for checking.

Bob

Re: Better Veriword Captcha Display

sinbad — Dec 04, 2008, 12:30 AM

consider

if (strcasecmp($fields['vericode'], $code) == 0) {

as tested. it works perfect

however the manager capacha gives an error in the related file. mind trying again that one?

Re: Better Veriword Captcha Display

BobRay — Dec 03, 2008, 11:37 PM

I don’t think it’s available as a settable option, but you could easily change the code that evaluates the user’s input against the $_SESSION variable to do a case-insensitive compare. These are off the top of my head and untested:

If it’s eForm that’s doing the check for example, you’d need to change this line (line 178 in eform.inc.php):

if($fields['vericode']!=$code) {

if (strtolower($fields['vericode']) !=  strtolower($code) ) {

if (strcasecmp($fields['vericode'], $code) == 0) {

Which might be a little faster.

WebLoginPE, OTOH, has

if ($_SESSION['veriword'] !== $formcode)

which could be changed to

if (strcasecmp($_SESSION['veriword'],formcode) != 0)

The Manager login comparison is in manager/processors/login.processor.php:

elseif ($_SESSION['veriword'] != $captcha_code) {

would change to

elseif (strcasecmp($_SESSION['veriword'],$captcha_code) != 0 )  {

Note that if the captcha words have non-English characters (e.g. é), you might need a more complicated comparison function.

Re: Better Veriword Captcha Display

sinbad — Dec 03, 2008, 10:32 PM

anyway to make it non case sensitive?
I tried just lowercase the letters in the file but that makes the letters sometime* unreadable inside the box as they drop down...

Re: Better Veriword Captcha Display

rethrash — May 28, 2007, 09:00 AM

Does look much better indeed. Thanks for sharing.