Handy CAPTCHA service - help digitise books too! 1

[Foamcow]

This is a nice idea

http://recaptcha.net/

A CAPTCHA service that is being used to digitise scanned books. Quite a clever idea and useful if you aren't able to create your own CAPTCHA images.

Oh... it does audio CAPTCHA too.

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Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[monksnake]

Is that ebonics? CAPTCHA?

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart... namely those boxes that hold obscured letters and numbes that you often have to type in when registering on websites.

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[Foamcow]

Automated?
I've got a little chap sitting in the corner making up codes and checking what gets input.

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Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[1DMF]

Foamy,

Can you offer me a place to get a free captcha program that I can run on my host, I don't want reCAPTCHA because it is a web service and I prefer to host things myself, ok it's bandwidth and processing power but hey, if reCAPTCHA went bust or started charging, if I host my CAPTACH program it won't effect my site!

I also hate having my site rely on someone elses working!

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[Foamcow]

I can point you in the direction of a PHP class if that's any help.

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Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[Foamcow]

http://www.white-hat-web-design.co.uk/articles/php-captcha.php

try that one.

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Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[1DMF]

Thanks Mr Foam Cow, though it's PHP :-( , got any PERL ;-)

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[Foamcow]

Nope, I don't do PERL.
I got that one from using Google though.

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Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[1DMF]

Don't do PERL , you're missing out, it's a lovely language to work with and such a nice bunch of bods in the PERL forum , it's a must have for all web coders, but then again, I'm probably bias

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[Foamcow]

I used to do PERL. Not written any in about 7 years though.
Generally I have no need for it, but I am aware of it which is enough for me to know should I ever be unable to use PHP.

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Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[1DMF]

So Faomy, having been a PERL head and now PHP, how do you find it, for a start PHP does not force code separation, or do you use some type of templating system?

I've hummed and harred about learning PHP as it is so widely used, but then thought WHY? , I can get done what I need with PERL , so why fix something that isn't broken.

Then I come across the odd annoyance where PERL doesn't 100% do the job and wonder maybe PHP could.

But maybe I should learn ASP as generally everything is possible with that, and I do write VBA, hmmm, I just don't know what to do, like a kid in a sweet shop but only 10p in my pocket!!

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[Foamcow]

I can't say I'm a 'PERL head'. I started learning it when I first started out.

When I found PHP I didn't need PERL as I could do all I wanted 'on the page'. Not great practice.

Nowadays, depending on what I am doing, I generally create a separate file containing core PHP functions - in the case of some recent ecommerce work I created a shopping cart class.

Occasionally I'll do something quick within the page itself, generally as a function or series of functions though.

For instance, I'm working on a small site at the moment. It needs a CMS. So i've dropped my CMS functions file into the site and split up my HTML pages to use includes.
Then I just need to call the appropriate functions to get the page data at the top of the page file - this then gets inserted where it's needed. So it's a kind of template system I guess. Layout switching is done via CSS - the appropriate body class is pulled out of the database with my core CMS functions.

PHP doesn't 'force' code separation, but that doesn't mean you can't separate it.

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Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.