CATCHA NOT WORKING

i'm having an issue where the captcha while it displays it doesn't validate....i believe i have followed all the instructions...in fact i created a test sub domain just to make it simple and it just doesn't work at all....when i hit submit to the form it just goes right to the action form and there is nothing stopping it..

in a private message i will provide ftp information so you may investigate this issue

Please help..

can you attach a copy of the form page and a link to the form page please?

Here is link to the form: http://captcha.solishost.com/

Rule number 1 when working with forms:

- All Form processing must occur on the forms action page.

The action of the form on your index page is to post to the conformation page:

action="confirmation.php"


The seerver validation behavor needs to be added to the action page.

this tutorial:
http://www.webassist.com/tutorials/Add-server-validation-to-your-web-forms

goes through adding validation to your form pages, it uses the example of a checkout page that posts to a confirm page, use that tutorial for an example of adding validation to a form that posts to another page.

Here are the steps i took on my web site...

I added form....this form inserts to a database and then it emails me information...the action page is same page...

now i added captcha and then i added validation to fields i needed..

Now everything works the only issue is that on captcha i can enter anything and it still works but if i enter nothing it will not work and it goes to my failed page so the validation is working just not the captcha code that needs to work if correct code is entered and fail if the wrong code is entered..

I tried it a few times to remove validation and captcha information form the page and re adding it and still doesn't work..

susing FTP to look at the code for the index page on the server, the from tag is:

<form action="confirmation.php" method="post" name="435345345" id="435345345" accept-charset="UTF-8">


the action of the form is to post to the confirmation page.


there is no code on the conformation page to process the page.

the validation code that I see is on the ondex page.

in the server validation code, on the index page:

<?php 
if (($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") && (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]) && strpos(urldecode($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]), urldecode($_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"])) > 0) && isset($_POST))  {
  $WAFV_Redirect = "failed_confirmation.php";
  $_SESSION['WAVT_index_255_Errors'] = "";
  if ($WAFV_Redirect == "")  {
    $WAFV_Redirect = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
  }
  $WAFV_Errors = "";
  $WAFV_Errors .= WAValidateRQ(((isset($_POST["Security_Code_1"]))?$_POST["Security_Code_1"]:"") . "",false,1);

  if ($WAFV_Errors != "")  {
    PostResult($WAFV_Redirect,$WAFV_Errors,"index_255");
  }
}
?>

you are using the required vlaidation type, not the like entry validation type.

1) the validation server behavior must be on the page specified as the form action

2) you should use the like entry validation type to compare the captcha session variable to the captcha form element.

Thank you so much Jason that solved the issue....AS ALWAYS GREAT SUPPORT!!!!!!

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  susing FTP to look at the code for the index page on the server, the from tag is:

<form action="confirmation.php" method="post" name="435345345" id="435345345" accept-charset="UTF-8">


the action of the form is to post to the confirmation page.


there is no code on the conformation page to process the page.

the validation code that I see is on the ondex page.

in the server validation code, on the index page:

<?php 
if (($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") && (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]) && strpos(urldecode($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]), urldecode($_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"])) > 0) && isset($_POST))  {
  $WAFV_Redirect = "failed_confirmation.php";
  $_SESSION['WAVT_index_255_Errors'] = "";
  if ($WAFV_Redirect == "")  {
    $WAFV_Redirect = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
  }
  $WAFV_Errors = "";
  $WAFV_Errors .= WAValidateRQ(((isset($_POST["Security_Code_1"]))?$_POST["Security_Code_1"]:"") . "",false,1);

  if ($WAFV_Errors != "")  {
    PostResult($WAFV_Redirect,$WAFV_Errors,"index_255");
  }
}
?>

you are using the required vlaidation type, not the like entry validation type.

1) the validation server behavior must be on the page specified as the form action

2) you should use the like entry validation type to compare the captcha session variable to the captcha form element.  

you're welcome.