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Blank Captchas ??

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:48 pm
by Chief
Hi, I have try to enable Captchas in comments but I see only a White square with no Captchas in.

Where I can look for that ?

Thx !

Re: Blank Captchas ??

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:52 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!

What's your URL? Maybe you configured white text on white background? ;)

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:56 pm
by Chief

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:03 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!

It seems your server'S PHP GDlibrary is not able to parse the ".ttf" truetype files in the spamblock directory. Did you upload those .ttf files, are they existing and readable?

You might need to ask your hoster if truetype support is properly enabled and setup in PHP.

Best regards,
Garvin

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:20 pm
by Chief
Ok I check that ... thx

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:27 am
by Chief
Nope ... I have some other php-nuke website running Captchas and its work great, GD2 library is on and I have all ttf and png in the folder, I have also move in the server the ttf ( folder Windows\fonts ) and its blank again

I have change to grey the background to see and I see nothing... I see some dot in the box if I put scrambled.

Thx !

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:05 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!

Other systems like phpnuke might emit Captchas completely different! Is phpnuke also using .ttf files to create a captcha?
I have change to grey the background to see and I see nothing... I see some dot in the box if I put scrambled.
Definitely your PHP gdlib is not able to parse the .ttf files of the spamblock plugin in this case. Because the rest works, but not rendering TTF.

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:10 pm
by Chief
I have talk with my hosting guys but they dont know what I mean ... I am on a Windows 2003 server. You know where I can search to have the mothod to config the server to make it working ?

I see .png in the folder ... the Captchas can use these .png instead of the .ttf ?

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:38 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!

Maybe you could search for some PHP scripts that use TTF Fonts to render images? Maybe with those scripts you can see if it generally works on your server.

It might be that on a Windows Server, TTF generation is not really possible. I have no experience with that.
I see .phn in the folder ... the Captchas can use these .png instead of the .ttf ?
That would only work if GDlib is not available on your system, as the fallback is only used automatically. But the captcha fallback is really easy to bypass. :)

Best regards,
Garvin

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:46 pm
by Chief
Thx Garvin, I continuous my search ... if I found something I come back with the solution.

Have a good day !