Comments on: Captchas: A spam prevention feature for your Plone forms

By: Brian Gershon

Brian Gershon — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:59:09 +0000

Thanks James for the Plone 3.1 updated info! Also, I fixed the apostrophe and added a direct link to the product in the original blog entry based on your feedback.

By: James Stroud

James Stroud — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:06:42 +0000

(I hope this form doesn’t eat too much of this reply because it ate my link above. I also hope formatting comes out.)

The link to PloneCaptcha is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/plonecaptcha/

For Plone 3.1:

To install the PloneCaptcha product, simply make a new folder in the zinstance/products folder of you Plone 3.1 site and unzip the PloneCaptcha product into that folder. Add the product in the ZMI.

Also, the customization to contact-info.cpt can be done completely in the ZMI:
/portal_skins/plone_templates/contact-info/

I could not get the custom validator to be recognized and used, so I copied these lines into my custom validate_site_feedback.vpy:

code_generated = context.portal_captcha.getGeneratedCaptchaCode(hidden_captcha_code)
if code_generated != code_entered_by_user:
state.setError(‘captcha’,'Please enter the valid captcha code’, new_status=”failure”)

but then I needed to put in this parameter list at the top of the custom validate_site_feedback.vpy form:

hidden_captcha_code=”,code_entered_by_user=”,sender_from_address=”,subject=”,message=”

The validate_site_feedback.vpy script can be changed in the ZMI customization form at:

/portal_skins/plone_form_scripts/validate_site_feedback/manage_main

By: James Stroud

James Stroud — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:39:03 +0000

Thanks for this entry. It is helpful However, the package is not “PloneCaptchas” as stated in this blog entry. It is “PloneCaptcha”. Googling “PloneCaptchas” gets one “qPloneCaptchas” which does not use captchas.net. If you use the method here, you do not want qPloneCaptchas. You want PloneCaptcha available at .

By: kees

kees — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:23:26 +0000

Thanks for the most helpful comment about where to put captchas.net login data!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:55:11 +0000

Hi
Thanks for the above. I integrated Plone Captcha into my Plone 3 site and it works fine. I wondered if somebody tried to integrate the recent recaptcha.net version into that framework. From my first view to PloneCaptcha.py, it should be possible ?

By: Farida

Farida — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:48:28 +0000

Very useful sample.

Thanks
Farida