CAPTCHA Verification Code Soemtimes Displays

[scubaj]

Has anyone else had this problem?

I've done a fresh install - all 1.7.4 files, and have the captcha verification turned on for new registrations.  However, the image shows sometimes, but not always.  Users have to click on the image multiple times to get it to appear.

Running PHP 4.4.4 with GD support.  When the image shows up, everything is great.

Just curious if anyone else has run into this.

[CeJay]

yes I had this happen on a new install.
All I did was remove the background images and put in 1 of my own that I made, then 24 hours later I removed mine and put the default back in and had no more problems.

I don't actually know what I did to correct it, but it works fine now 

[scubaj]

Strange...  I'll give it a try.  At this point, I'll try just about anything!  I've been pulling my hair out all morning on this one.  I wonder if it's just a server issue.....

[CeJay]

only other thing i can think of is create all new backgrounds, with the same name. So back up the orignals first.
However when you make the new files use less colors and have them web ready (like you can do in Adobe Photoshop) so they are smaller in KB. Maybe the loading will be easier and take less time.

Just an idea, not sure if it will work or not.

[davy_74]

I had the same problem

Captcha stores the backgounds and the fonts in two dirs (backgrouns and fonts). I'm using dreamweaver to edit my files and upload them trough ftp. Dreamweaver (I don't know why) creates a dir calles _notes in each directory. It seems that captcha is not very clever and gets this directory as a background. The result is that GD fails creating the image. I deleted all the _notes dirs and is working fine all the time.

I hope this will be usefull for everybody.

Some recomendations in which is the best IDE + debugger for PHP-MySQL on the market. Take in mind that I develop in a Windows worstation, but the testing server is on linux.

Cheers Davy