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Hi there,
Several months ago, I took your mail program and expanded it into a staff application form by adding more fields and checkboxes. I did not alter anything to do with the capcha and such. The form worked beautifully with not a hitch.
Now, my client wanted to alter some of those fields and expand the application. So, I followed the same procedure that I previously did (kept my notes on what files I altered etc).
Now the form wont work. You can fill in the form/application and click send and the page just refreshes. Some of the fields remain filled in and others are blank again. You have given the error message of: Please correct the errors in red: However, there are no red error messages showing. I did not alter anything in the sitestyle file and I made sure that the fields are accounted for anywhere in the code in files pertaining to error.
Also, and this was a problem from before, but a minor one ... with the capcha ... it's a 5 character capcha, but sometimes (3 out of 5 times) the 5th character is white, and thus you can't see it. Again, I never, from day one, altered ANYTHING concerning the capcha code.
I even used WinMerge to compare/contrast the original mail form script (untouched) and other than those codes that pertain to the fields themselves, nothing else is altered (send function, capcha, etc).
Once I have the form working, I'll need to put it behind a SSL certificate for obvious reasons when you view the form.
<a href="http://www.heavensangelsreadings.com/application/index.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.heavensangelsreadings.com/application/i ndex.php</a>
If you can provide any suggestions, I would be more than appreciative. I have been looking at these files for the last 2 days and can't figure out why the form won't work now, when it worked perfectly fine before. I went through with a fine tooth comb making sure all apostrophes and semi colons and all are intact.
I'm half bald now and that doesn't look great on a gal *wink*
BTW: I did v3.1
Barbara
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Hi Barbara,
Firstly, the captcha is working correctly. Because its randomly selecting a colour for each character, its possible that white is one of those colours. At the moment I don`t have a refresh option for Maian Mail for the captcha, but I will add one next time.
You can try opening the 'classes/php-captcha.inc.php' file and finding line 154:
$iLineColour = imagecolorallocate($this->oImage, rand(100, 250), rand(100, 250), rand(100, 250));
Reduce the 250 to something smaller. The RGB for white is 255,255,255. So, reducing the 250 will reduce the amount of white used.
As for the form, well unfortunately I can`t be of much help because I can`t see what you have done with the code, so I have no idea where its failing. If you want to send a small donation I`ll take a look for you.
David.
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David,
Am just doing a quick "drive-by" the forum as I'm swamped with stuffs ...
Will adjust the white as you suggested ... didn't even think of that. doh!
Donation ... how small is "small" ? *wink* hehehe
Will check back with you in another day or so. And, thanks for your help and great scripts!
Barb
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Thanks Barb. The donation is up to you. I don`t set an amount. Any donation is appreciated.
David.
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Just really quick .. I went into that above file and changed the color set from
$iLineColour = imagecolorallocate($this->oImage, rand(100, 250), rand(100, 250), rand(100, 250));
to ...
$iLineColour = imagecolorallocate($this->oImage, rand(100, 150), rand(100, 150), rand(100, 150));
} else {
$iRandColour = rand(100, 150);
$iLineColour = imagecolorallocate($this->oImage, $iRandColour, $iRandColour, $iRandColour);
And I still get a white 5th character in the captcha ... have to refresh form 3-5 times to get it to show. I also tried 200, 225, 175, etc ... I'm not used to working with RGB ... so I'm not sure what I'm doing with the above code. *grins* I do have a web page up showing all the RGB codes for colors. I think a gremlin is in my files. *chuckles*
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Barb,
Check out this other thread for Maian Mail:
http://www.maianscriptworld.co.uk/forum/index.php? action=vthread&forum=5&topic=498
Look at Alexanders last message. He also wanted to change the colour. You could also adjust some of the settings in the captcha class. ie, you could create a blank jpeg and then specify that as the background.
You can also look for this code on line 298:
imagecolorallocate($this->oImage, 255, 255, 255);
That sets white as the background color. You can change these values. Only problem is you might still get a character generated with the same bg colour.
David.
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Thanks for point me to that thread.
I guess what I'm confused about is that if RGB is made up of 3 numbers (ie, 250 250 250) ... then why is there only two listed per group (ie (100, 250)) ? I guess I'm not sure how to read the code in the script.
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Ok, based on the other thread, I think I got my captcha problem taken care of. I refresh over 20 times and didn't have any "invisible" characters, especially that 5th one. Whereas before, it happened by the 5th refresh. *fingers and toes crossed*
Just to clarify, this captcha is NOT case sensitive? It seems to work both ways, but wanted to double check.
As soon as my client pays me, I'll send you a donation so you can help with my major problem! *grins*
Thanks for your patience in helping.
Barb
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Thanks Barb, thats very kind of you. Glad you got it sorted.
The rand() function generates a randon number between the given arguments. So if I did rand(1,9), this would generate a single number between 1 & 9. So, rand(100, 150) is generating a single random number between 100 & 150.
David.
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David,
Today, I sent you a donation and an email via the contact form. Let me know what you need in order to see why my form quit working (see first post).
Thanks in advance!
Barb
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Thanks Barb, will look at this today.
David.
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I will update the captcha when I get some spare time.
David.
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