Installing Recaptcha in Joomla 1.5 user registration

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Samuel picture Samuel · Jul 7, 2009 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

I am trying to install ReCaptcha into the user registration of Joomla 1.5. This may just be an issue with Joomla but when i hit register nothing happens. I think it's doing some JavaScript form validation but there is nothing telling the user what went wrong. if, God forbid, they do fill out the form correctly Joomla will redirect the user to the homepage and give no notice of success.

Is this a Joomla issue or is there something wrong with my install? Does anyone know of a plug-in or module for Joomla that would make this easier?

Thanks in advance,
Samuel

UPDATE: Joomla does a lot of "stuff"/"something" to the $_POST and $_GET variables which was causing the reCaptcha to not function. This was for work which is past so I am not spending anymore time on it. Shameless Plug: use wordpress instead.

this can be closed as I don't have time to verify which answer works

Answer

Vladislav Rastrusny picture Vladislav Rastrusny · Sep 21, 2009

Are you sure you tried all reCaptcha plugins for Joomla? There are plenty:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/search/reCaptcha

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