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

[tanzeelniazi]

any idea using recaptcha for login ???
why not for login use

[kh99]

I don't know why they decided not to make "login" one of the actions you could select for human verification. I could see requiring it after one or more "strikes", so that it would make it more difficult to guess passwords. In any case I'm not planning to add it to this mod.

[ozzy47]

If I had to do a recaptcha every time I logged into a site, I would leave.

[CAG CheechDogg]

That would suck lol ... oh Man I can only imagine that lol hahaha !!!

[kh99]

As usual, I think it depends on circumstances. If this site decided to implement reCaptcha on login to fight the password guessing attacks that we get periodically, it wouldn't bother me at all. The fact is that I log in using my password so infrequently that remembering my password is much harder than an image verification. And the content here is valuable so I'd deal with it. I'm not sure that it would be important enough for the average site to have, but maybe some admins have their reasons.

[sadiq6210]

Thanks, installed and rated :up: It is working perfect

Originally Posted by ozzy47

If I had to do a recaptcha every time I logged into a site, I would leave.

Sure I will do the same.
Nobody want to do recaptcha every time just to log in !

[Gadget_Guy]

Can you confirm that this is implemented properly?

I ask because stats for the use of recaptcha are not being fed back to google.

The recaptcha is showing up as the new version, however, when I go to my recaptcha account, there are no stats in terms of use of it.

Could it be the way you coded the server side integration?

D.

[RippedCTO]

i just installed v.9 and set up the keys, but when I go to the register screen it is completely blank. Any ideas?

[kh99]

Originally Posted by Gadget_Guy

Can you confirm that this is implemented properly?

I ask because stats for the use of recaptcha are not being fed back to google.

The recaptcha is showing up as the new version, however, when I go to my recaptcha account, there are no stats in terms of use of it.

Could it be the way you coded the server side integration?

D.

I'm not sure how to answer that. I followed the (rather sparse) instructions from google and it seems to be able to tell the difference between valid input and invalid input, and when I tried changing some characters in my keys it complianed about the keys being invalid, so it seems to work. I don't get any stats either but I only created keys to test with and it says I don't have enough traffic to show stats, so I don't know. I suppose it's possible there's a problem with my implementation.

What page are you going to to look at the stats? Are you using keys from the older version? They are supposed to work with the new version but maybe the stats aren't being totaled in the same place as they were for the previous version.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by RippedCTO

i just installed v.9 and set up the keys, but when I go to the register screen it is completely blank. Any ideas?

You're saying your entire registration page is blank. I guess something's causing a php error but I don't know what. Do you have access to your server and php error logs? Maybe you can look there to see if there's any more info.