captcha

To go along with the release of Captcha 3.0 final, I put together a small video tutorial on Captcha, Image Captcha and reCAPTCHA.

Crossposting here:
Hi Folks,
Last version from Captcha had an PHP 4 incompatibility.
Sorry to all problems it had gave to you folks, and I really suggest you to upgrade your php version (or ask your provider to do so).
PHP4 is deprecated.

I'm proud to say you we have a new Captcha version.
Besides the API, most of changes are user centric, we improved the help pages, improved the usability of module, and fixed some bugs.

And now, we need that you, our users, download, test it, find bugs, suggest improvements, and please say what you think of about our work...

Thanks,
Fabiano

I have some food for thought about the use of the word "captcha" in the Drupal captcha modules.

CAPTCHA is the abbreviation for "Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart". Because it is an abbreviation, it should be spelled "CAPTCHA", (with upper case). In the Drupal captcha module we use "captcha" and "Captcha", as if it would be normal words. Some relevant sites where they use "CAPTCHA": http://www.captcha.net/ (the offical CAPTCHA site), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA .
Should we change in all the CAPTCHA modules the "captcha"s to "CAPTCHA"?

Hi all,

I was working for some time on a bunch of capcha challenges for use with the base Captcha module.
Today I finally imported them as the Captcha Pack module in Drupal's CVS and created a project page on drupal.org. Check out http://drupal.org/project/captcha_pack for more info about the available challenges.

Because Captcha v3 is still under development, I did not provide an official release of Captcha Pack. So if you want to try it out, you'll have to fire up your CVS client or wait until the CVS HEAD snapshot is available.

Feel free to test it and give feedback/submit issues.

Version 2.1 of the Drupal reCAPTCHA module has been released and includes a number of enhancements.

Update: Version 2.2 fixes some minor things.

Hi again folks,
I'm closing old posts from captcha, committing and reviewing patches when it applies.

Any help is welcome ;)

fabiano

cross posting here:
Hi folks,
I'm planning to put Captcha's v3 in code freeze with the release of Captcha 5.x.3.0, which should be released this Sunday.
If you have any feature that you really want to see implemented, please, submit a patch as soon as possible.

A just saw a webpage about the Craziest Captchas on the Web and thought it was pretty interesting. Some of these are pretty funny and unique. I particularly like the braille one.

When can we expect Captcha modules for some of these? ;-)

Yesterday, wundo released Captcha version 3.0 RC1, which is a complete redesign of the old 2.x branch.

Captcha 3.0 RC 1 features:

• Complete redesign of the entire module.
• Image Captcha and Text Captcha are now provided as contributed modules within the module itself. No reason to download any other modules to make captcha work.
• Well documented API, so you're able to create a captcha challenge yourself.
• Ability to add Captcha challenges to any Drupal form using a nice user interface.
• ... and much more.