Captcha addon fpr PP1.71

[joerg]

D'OH!!! Thanks a lot!

1) Yes I gave up.
2) I used only defensio.
3) That's it. I turned defensio off and captcha on again and it works now.

It even works without the modifications dwilkinsjr suggested, but thanks anyway.

[Dkozikowski+]

My modifications consisted of variable and code cleanup that produced header and sessions warnings. On my local instal, the CAPTCHA image would not display due to these warnings.

I'm glad it works on your blog unmodified but if you want clean code, you will apply my modifications anyway.

And it's funny, I too was going to suggest to turn off all other spam defenses but the CAPTCHA continued to work even with Akismet / Defensio turned on. Go figure

[austriaka+]

Dave, I guess both Addons rely to the same workspace, don't they? (comment_accepted). So it depends on the order in which the Addons are called which is almost random.

[Dkozikowski+]

True, I didn't think of that.

[austriaka+]

I had the same problem with my Reply-To-Comments Addon which was sometimes called before Akismet and so the replying comments were not checked.

To make it work together with Akismet, you can use the workspaces provided by Akismet Addon after checking:

$result_aks = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM {$pixelpost_db_prefix}addons WHERE addon_name='admin_akismet_comment' AND status='on'");
if (mysql_num_rows($result_aks) > 0) { 	 //It's on!!
	add_front_functions('update_thread_id','comment_passed_askimet');
	add_front_functions('update_thread_id','comment_blocked_askimet');
}
else add_front_functions('update_thread_id','comment_accepted');

As far as I have seen so far Defensio Addon doesn't provide a workspace after its check so it will be difficult (or impossible) to teach the Captcha Addon to hook in after Defensio check. But for Akismet it should work :-)

[Dennis+]

It is true Defensio doesn't provide a workspace after that. There won't be a need for these fixes when we get the addon order sorted out.

[Gromitch]

Great addon, thanks Dennis!

[gheatza]

Hey there,

And thanks for this great add-on , which does work, but it doesn't work, at least for me. Let me explain, I think the add-on works great, but I'm having a bit of a problem, and that is, the add-on only displays the CAPTCHA on the very first page of the blog (I think it's something to do with the last post, not sure though). If for example you go to http://www.stargazer.eu, on the very first page you get the captcha, you can comment, and everything is fine, but as soon as you do previous, or after you return to the first image, no more captcha, no more image, byebye comments as well (no errors returned etc, it just seems you ARE posting the comment, but nothing reaches the database).
Now, I know it's probably my fault, or it has to do something with the template ( simplicious, a bit modified), but I would really appreciate if someone could look a bit into it, whenever you guys have a bit of time and would like to laugh a bit at me


Thank you.

ps. sorry, I didn't open a new thread just in case someone does look and manages to help me fix it, so it might help others as well, let me know if I should thread-ify it.