Re: [xwiki-users] about to give in...

Hi, Ok, I got captcha to work for commenting. I will explain how I did it: * I could not find any helpful documentation so I went and looked at the CaptchaPlugin.java class ( http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/… ) * Here I found that you need to have a preference parameter named like <action>_registered or <action>_anonymous in your XWiki.XWikiPreference object that defines the captcha mode to be used for validation. Possible values are "image" and "text" * Out of curiosity I fired up my local XE, navigated to http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/admin/XWiki/XWikiPreferences and selected edit->class. I looked for fields that looked like above and found the following ones: registration_anonymous : Captcha mode for new registrations registration_registered: This is weired edit_anonymous: Captcha mode for unregistered user edits edit_registered: Captcha mode for registered user edits comment_anonymous: Captcha mode for unregistered user comments comment_registered: Captcha mode for registered user comments These fields have pretty names that doesn't make much sense. * Then I switched back to object edit mode and inside the XWiki.XWikiPreferences object I found these fields and set them to "image" * I don't know how I ended up looking at XWiki::hasCaptcha() method but anyway I was looking at it after some time. Here I learnt that you need the "xwiki.plugin.captcha" flag to be set to 1 if your captacha validations to work. * Then inside eclipse I did a search for all the references of XWiki.hasCaptcha() method and leant following actions support captcha: - CommentAddAction - EditAction - PreviewAction - SaveAction All of these actions only verify if captcha is enabled and if it validates correctly. They do not display the captcha images, without that displaying all of them validates to "true". So this means we need to edit the templates and display captcha if these actions are to be restricted. But as you can see, RegisterAction do not verify captcha, so we cannot use captcha for validating registrations. But this is very easy to be added, needs a small patch. * Then I went and located commentsinline.vm and found the section which displays the comment box: <code> #macro(displayCommentForm) #if($xwiki.hasAccessLevel('comment')) <form action="$doc.getURL('commentadd')" method="post" id="AddComment"> <fieldset class="expanded" id="commentform"> <legend>$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.title')</legend> <input type="hidden" name="xredirect" value="${doc.getURL('view')}#Comments" /> #if($context.user != 'XWiki.XWikiGuest') <label>$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.guestName.prompt') $xwiki.getUserName($context.user)</label> <input type="hidden" name="${xCommentClass}_author" value="$context.user"/> #else <label>$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.guestName.prompt') <input type="text" name="${xCommentClass}_author" value="$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.guestName.default')"/></label> #end <input type="hidden" name="${xCommentClass}_date" value=""/> <input type="hidden" name="${xCommentClass}_replyto" value="$!{request.replyto}"/> <div class="commentcontainer"> <label>$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.comment.label')</label> <textarea id='${xCommentClass}_comment' rows='5' cols="80" name='${xCommentClass}_comment'></textarea> </div> <div> <span class="buttonwrapper"><input type="submit" value="$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.submit')" class="button"/></span> <span class="buttonwrapper"><input #if("$!{request.replyto}" == '') type="reset" #else type="submit" #end value="$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.cancel')" class="button" name="action_cancel"/></span> </div> </fieldset> </form> #end #end </code> I added the captcha display code as bellow: <code> #macro(displayCommentForm) #if($xwiki.hasAccessLevel('comment')) <form action="$doc.getURL('commentadd')" method="post" id="AddComment"> <fieldset class="expanded" id="commentform"> <legend>$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.title')</legend> <input type="hidden" name="xredirect" value="${doc.getURL('view')}#Comments" /> #if($context.user != 'XWiki.XWikiGuest') <label>$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.guestName.prompt') $xwiki.getUserName($context.user)</label> <input type="hidden" name="${xCommentClass}_author" value="$context.user"/> #else <label>$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.guestName.prompt') <input type="text" name="${xCommentClass}_author" value="$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.guestName.default')"/></label> #end <input type="hidden" name="${xCommentClass}_date" value=""/> <input type="hidden" name="${xCommentClass}_replyto" value="$!{request.replyto}"/> <div class="commentcontainer"> <label>$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.comment.label')</label> <textarea id='${xCommentClass}_comment' rows='5' cols="80" name='${xCommentClass}_comment'></textarea> </div> $xwiki.jcaptcha.displayCaptcha("comment", "myclass") ## Here <div> <span class="buttonwrapper"><input type="submit" value="$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.submit')" class="button"/></span> <span class="buttonwrapper"><input #if("$!{request.replyto}" == '') type="reset" #else type="submit" #end value="$msg.get('core.viewers.comments.add.cancel')" class="button" name="action_cancel"/></span> </div> </fieldset> </form> #end #end </code> * Restarted xwiki and logged in as a normal user (Admin user does not get captcha anyway) and voila, I saw captcha display near the comment box. I tried to post a comment with an invalid captcha input and it failed, but the failiure was not that visible. Then I tried to post a comment with the correct captcha input and it worked!!! This is my experience but I'm not sure when captcha support will be fixed on xwiki completely. Thanks. - Asiri On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Edward Laptop &lt;edward(a)eldon.gotadsl.co.uk&gt;wrote;wrote: