How To Place a reCAPTCHA on a Web Form

http://icobb.com - I did not write this script, I simply created the video. If you cannot get it to work you may need to hire someone. If you are not at least somewhat familiar with PHP and coding this is most likely going to be very difficult for you.

How to install a reCAPTCHA anti-spam function on any HTML form with a PHP process. If you do any level of web development at all you should be able to handle this very simple process. If you do it as I show and your server is configured correctly it will work. I have installed it dozens of times and it always works.

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alright one of the questions that was
asked recently is how do you put in one
of those spam bots blocking thingamabobs
on a forum
well it's really not that difficult
in fact if you say your tech-savvy then
you certainly should be able to do this
because it doesn't require a tremendous
amount of tech-savvy to do this you will
need to know little HTML and a little
PHP to do it the way I'm going to show
you there are other ways and you can
learn know somewhere else because I'm
the lamp guy first thing we're going to
do is we're actually going to go to the
recaptcha site which is google.com /
recapture that's re c.a.p tcha as you
can see right there we are going to
create a here's a contact form simple
contact form that I've created and as
you can see right now it does have some
validation built into it but it does not
have a an anti bought or anti-spam
device in fact if i click this this
takes us right straight to a page where
it tells us that the email address that
we entered was not valid
what we want on there as well because a
bot can easily find this email field and
enter it in so without further ado what
you're going to need is you're going to
need some kind of a PHP text editing
software you're going to need either ftp
access to your account or some other way
to get information into your account and
you're going to need to create a capture
so what we're going to do is we're
actually going to go back to this page
here the google.com / re-capture and I
click create a recap shiki i'm going to
create this for the entire domain
I com.com i'm not going to enable this
keon all means if i wanted to create one
recapture for all of the domains that I
handle I could create that here and just
have one public and private tea or i can
go down here and sign up for multiple
keys at one time or i can just create
this single key which is what I'm going
to do I'm going to go right here and
click create key now you'll see what it
has given us here it tells us this
domain name is icarly.com recapture will
only work on this domain
I've got a public key and a private key
and I really don't care if you have
access to those because if you're not
publishing to my site they won't work
there there's some information here that
gets you a little bit more in depth of
what you're going to do but we're going
to do the down-and-dirty fast and quick
i will show you what we're going to do
you can get all of this information from
this website that were on right now but
here's how we're going to do it going to
go back to our editing software
this is the form filled page in fact
this everything that you see here is
what is on this page
it's using some PHP includes us why
there's not a lot of HTML but here's the
form that we're looking at and I need to
put my recapture right above my submit
but which is here as you can see this is
a very simple form years maybe more
complex but the bottom line is somewhere
on there there's a submit button
okay you don't have to put it there i'm
just putting it there because that seems
to be convention i need the capture
information that is required i should
already have the recapture library
installed on my server and the directory
that I'm pointing to
okay so we need to upload
recapture lip library to this directory
simply upload it
I could create a separate library or
separate location for it but i'm going
to install it right there in the same
one where hi I'm creating or updating my
documents so i'm going to copy this
information that i got from that web
page where we downloaded it simply copy
this going to go back to my contact page
find my submit button and paste that
information there just to keep some good
code punch this in a little bit and dent
it keep it in line you'll see here that
I need to put my public key
well my public key just happens to be
right here i'm going to highlight that
copy it go back here replace these words
those words and then i'm going to save
this and upload now if i go back to that
page and i have five to refresh
indeed there is mine recapture now if I
click Submit it doesn't know on my
results page to look for the code so
I've got to have some way to tell my
system to verify and that's where this
private key comes in
so let's go back to our editor let's go
to this is the form that actually
handles all of that information and what
I want to do is execute this if that
recapture information is valid so I go
back to
go i go here this is the one that tells
us if the capture is valid so I'm
actually going to copy only this part
then go back to my process page I'm
going to put this at the very top of
mind PHP and you'll notice here that
it's asking for my private so I'm going
back to this page collect my private key
go back to my editor replace private key
now if this is correct
it's going to are incorrect it's going
to die right here and tell us that the
recapture wasn't entered correctly we
can customize this error if we want or
we can leave it like it is if it is
correct then it's going to process this
entire bit of information here so what I
want to do because i started an else
statement is I want to and that else
statement and then just make a note so
know what this is for and free capture
and save this we have our forum in there
we want to go back and upload process
and now we'll go back to our page and we
click Submit it tells us that the
recapture wasn't correct and it also
died
it killed the page so nothing after that
published so let's see if we go in now
let's just refresh to get a new caption
here we have looks like Lazarus I hate
these things sometimes you have to use
them
hi leg that looks right click Submit now
it tells us that the email address that
we entered was not valid so the
recapture were
it this is this way because we did not
put in a correct email address
Tommy tester si.com phone 62 8439 23 web
addresses dot-com this is this large and
its key or believe it says submit
results
boom message was sent there are comments
3 capture worked
we're in business is pretty simple all
you have to do first is sign up get your
public and private keys edit your files
upload your files execute your
application