quintagroup.plonecaptchas

Links

• Home Page - http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/plone-captchas
• Repository - ​http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/quintagroup.plonecaptchas
• Releases - ​http://plone.org/products/plone-captchas/releases
• Screencasat about Plone Captchas covering package installation on Plone 3 buildout, captchas configuration: static & dynamic captchas, and Plone captchas usage - ​http://quintagroup.com/cms/screencasts/qplonecaptchas

Introduction

quintagroup.plonecaptchas adds captcha support to Plone, it works together with quintagroup.captcha.core. With these products installed captchas will be added to Plone's Send this, Contact Us (/contact-info) forms, and Plone's default discussion mechanism: Add Comment and Reply forms.

Join Form

quintagroup.plonecaptchas does not automatically plug to Plone's default registration (/join_form). You can make captcha plug to Plone's Join form via Zope Management Interface:

• Go to portal_setup - Import
• in Select Profile or Snapshot drop down menu select Plone Captchas Register Forms for Plone 4 (for plone 3.x versions - select profile according to the Plone version used on your site, e.g Plone Captchas Join Form for plone-3.3)

• Move to the bottom of the page and press Import all steps
• Captcha will now be applied to the registration form.

Installation

Plone 3, 4 buildout

If you are using buildout to manage your project, you can do this:

• Add quintagroup.plonecaptchas to the list of eggs to install in the buildout.cfg file:

      [buildout]
      ...
      eggs =
          ...
          quintagroup.plonecaptchas
  

• Tell the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe to install a ZCML slug for this product: add quintagroup.plonecomments and quintagroup.plonecomments-overrides to zcml area of a buildout.cfg file:

   [instance]
   recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
   ...
   zcml =
       quintagroup.plonecaptchas

• Re-run buildout with:

   $ ./bin/buildout

• Restart the Zope server with the following command in the terminal:

   $ ./bin/instance restart

• Activate Plone Captchas via Quickinstaller in Plone: Site Setup -> Add-ons.

Important Note

With quintagroup.plonecaptchas you have to be care with the version of the package you need on your instance:

• For Plone 4 versions - use quintagroup.plonecaptchas 4.x releases. In your buildout.cfg file's egg section set product version:

       [buildout]
       ....
       eggs =
             ...
             quintagroup.plonecaptchas >=4.0
  

• For Plone 3 versions - use quintagroup.plonecaptcha 3.x releases. In your buildout.cfg file's egg section set product version:

       [buildout]
       ....
       eggs =
             ...
             quintagroup.plonecaptchas >=3.0,<4.0
  

Traditional Zope 2 Instance for Plone 3

To install quintagroup.plonecaptchas into the global Python environment (or a workingenv), using a traditional Zope 2 instance, you can do this:

• Copy quintagroup folder to your instance /lib/python directory.
• Create a file called quintagroup.plonecaptchas-configure.zcml in your instance /etc/package-includes directory. The file should only contain this:

     <include package="quintagroup.plonecaptchas" file="configure.zcml" />
  

• Restart the Zope server, for example, with the following command in the terminal:

     $ ./bin/zopectl restart
  

• Activate Plone Captchas via Quickinstaller in Plone: Site Setup -> Add-ons.

Plone 2.x

For Plone 2.x versions - use ​1.3.4 version of qPloneCaptchas product to add captcha to PloneFormMailer? forms.

Notes

• If Plone Captchas is expected to be used with Plone Comments product, for proper behaviour, you have to install Plone Captchas first, and then Plone Comments.
• If you want to change captcha look - use quintagroup.captcha.core settingsproduct.
• If you want captcha support for PloneFormGen forms - use quintagroup.pfg.captcha product.