sometimes I cannot see captcha image

[davy_74]

Hi folks

I have a problem. Everytime I want to register a user sometimes I see captcha image  and sometimes not. Sometimes I have to click on the image several times until the image appears. I tried and it seems to be randomly. I see captcha images with all the available backgrounds. What is going on? I can't understand that. I checked the file permisions and everythig is ok. Some ideas please?

Cheers

Davy

[XFuzon]

Sorry for posting in an old thread - but i had the same problem.
To anyone who's facing such a problem, all you have to do is upload the background images and the fonts in Binary mode using FTP - that will solve the problem.
 
Hope this may help someone in the future

[ma3foos]

I had the same issue also...

thats why I disabled the captcha image function

[lazarus]

I had the same problems - very frustrating. I found a web page that had a helpful bit of code on it - I can't remember where I found it, or I would give the link and credit to them - sorry.

Paste this line:
die(captcha_get_font());

Above this line:
function captcha_validate($code) {

In captcha_utils.php, locate in the 'includes' directory of 4images gallery.

For my situation, I found that Frontpage extensions had placed _VTI_CNF folder in both the 'fonts' and 'backgrounds' folders that CAPTCHA uses. CAPTCHA, obviously not that bright, had decided that the _VTI_CNF folder was yet another font, or background, to be used.

The moral of the story:

Delete (safely - make sure that you're not deleting any real data) any subfolders or 'non-font' or 'non-background' files from the two folders that CAPTCHA uses.

~Cheers, Laz.

[phospheratu]

Hi.
I tried this, but when I implement it, I get a page that has nothing but the name of a font in the top left corner.
Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.