Challenging the user with a dynamic GIF to ensure theyre human

[Dave Turner]

On some sites there is an image that is dynamically generated at page load,
which simply has a few random characters like "a5J7" printed on it (which
change with each page refresh), and the user must enter in those characters
they see in a textbox as if it was a password. This allows the website to
confirm that the visitor is a human, and not just an automated script.

Does anyone know how (if?) this can be done with PHP? my Googling wasnt very
fruitful :(

[Anonymous]

Dave Turner wrote:

On some sites there is an image that is dynamically generated at page load,
which simply has a few random characters like "a5J7" printed on it (which
change with each page refresh), and the user must enter in those characters
they see in a textbox as if it was a password. This allows the website to
confirm that the visitor is a human, and not just an automated script.

Does anyone know how (if?) this can be done with PHP? my Googling wasnt very
fruitful :(

Sure, that's actually quite easy.

Check the chapter "XLVI. Image Functions" in the PHP manual.

You'll first have to create some random string and then use the image
functions to output that string as a GIF, JPEG or whatever. There are
some simple examples in the manual that will certainly help you with
that. Check the example given for the imagestring() function.

Bye!

[Norman Peelman]

Try http://psbweb.mirrors.phpclasses.org...kage/1163.html

Norm
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On some sites there is an image that is dynamically generated at page load, which simply has a few random characters like "a5J7" printed on it (which
change with each page refresh), and the user must enter in those characters they see in a textbox as if it was a password. This allows the website to
confirm that the visitor is a human, and not just an automated script.

Does anyone know how (if?) this can be done with PHP? my Googling wasnt very fruitful :(

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Dave Turner wrote:

On some sites there is an image that is dynamically generated at page load, which simply has a few random characters like "a5J7" printed on it (which change with each page refresh), and the user must enter in those characters they see in a textbox as if it was a password. This allows the website to confirm that the visitor is a human, and not just an automated script.
Does anyone know how (if?) this can be done with PHP? my Googling wasnt very fruitful :(

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