Anti-Spam Options - reCAPTCHA v2 Human Verification

(Note: This mod was renamed. The original name was "New reCAPTCHA Human Verification")

What is it?
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This mod adds reCAPTCHA v2 as an option in the Human Verification Manager.

Note: The original reCAPTCHA used default keys if you didn't enter your own, so you could leave the key fields blank. This version requires you to have your own keys for your domain. To create them, go to this page (click on the "Get reCAPTCHA" button). It may take a short time after creating the keys before they will work, so if you get "ERROR: Invalid domain for site key", wait a while and try again.

vb3 version is here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=315964

Installation:
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1) Upload the file in the "upload" folder to your server.

2) Import the product XML file from the Product Manager.

3) If you don't already have keys, go to this page and create keys for your domain. (If you already have keys you can get them from that page as well).

4) Go to Settings > Human Verification Manager, select "New reCAPTCHA" for the Verification Library, and click Save.

5) Enter your keys on the options page, and select the light or dark widget as desired (apparently white and black are the only options at this time). You could select "Audio" to default to audio instead of image for the challenge, but the widget seems to have a bug in it at the moment so I recommend leaving it set to "image". Click Save when you're done selecting options.

6) You can check the configuration and do a test by clicking on "Click here to test connection" which appears under the description in the Human Verification Manager.

7) Do a test registration (or other action that requires hv) to test that your keys are entered correctly and everything is working.

8) If you are upgrading from version 0.9, you can remove the file includes/class_humanverify_newrecaptcha.php (the one without the third underscore) from your server.

History:
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1.0 (Feb 22, 2015)

• Cached template (required renaming the uploaded file from
  class_humanverify_newrecaptcha.php to class_humanverify_new_recaptcha.php)
• Removed default keys (which didn't work anyway)
• Removed trademark symbols
• Changed execution order of plugins from 5 to 4, to make sure this product
  works with another HV add-on that has a bug.
• If "New reCAPTCHA" is selected when this mod is uninstalled, the hv library
  is switched to 'disabled'.
• Added a test option to print out more information about verification failures

0.9 (Dec 11, 2014)

• Initial Release

[kh99]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

I got two new API keys but they are not being recognized on either the old Recaptcha nor the new one.

Added: It's causing problems for WordPress too. See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/...key?replies=34

Are you testing it on your live site (or at least one that you're accessing from the same domain)? I guess for it to work you either have to get to the page through your domain or else localhost.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

OK. That's a possibility.

I had to fall back to image verification on the forum I changed. I'll try again later.

Oh, then I guess it is your live site.

[djbaxter]

Yes. My live site.

[djbaxter]

Update: You were correct, kh99. It was just a short delay updating the API keys.

All working fine now. Thank you.

[djbaxter]

Update: I just added this to to more sites. I can confirm that you can no longer use your old Recaptcha keys. You need to delete the old key and re-register the domain to get new keys.

It is only taking a few minutes for it to recognize the new keys for me today.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Update: I just added this to to more sites. I can confirm that you can no longer use your old Recaptcha keys. You need to delete the old key and re-register the domain to get new keys.

Thanks, I'll change the description to say that.

[djbaxter]

Hmmm... I'm not 100% certain of that now.

I've now added this to 5 forums. On one, I didn't need to change the key - I only added this site a short while ago,

Now I'm wondering if I may have been using a single key for the other forums, that "global key" that Google warns will no longer work.

You might try your old key first and if you get an error delete it and get a new one.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

You might try your old key first and if you get an error delete it and get a new one.

Yeah, I think you're right. I saw somewhere else that the old keys should work, as long as they're not global keys.

[wootriffic]

After installing, i can test fine without issues, however my reg screen doesn't show the graphics on Chrome or IE.
In addition after disabling it and reverting back to the previous recap it also doesnt show.
http://i.imgur.com/yYw1wCf.png
http://i.imgur.com/PmxqeqC.png

So it does block spam sign ups, the only issue is nobody can sign up now..

vb 4.2.3

--- edit ---
Incompatible with vBSocial 10 Lite
If you could install that and replicate then fix the issue, i'd be super happy.

[kh99]

Just to be clear, are you saying all those issues were cause by incompatibility with vBSocial 10 Lite? I don't know how installing this mod could stop the previous recaptcha from working. Certainly if you uninstall it it shouldn't have any further effect.