There are tons of captcha scripts on the web. The problem is that, from the enthusiasm of making them more flexible, a lot of code and pages are added and instead of a simple solution one may end up with several files necessary to display the captcha image. I’m not saying that they are useless, but for most of the time, such complexity is not quite welcomed. I strongly believe that less is more and that things should be kept simple. Having that in mind, I want to share a way to protect your forms using a math captcha image that requires a single PHP file and a font file.
This is a very simple, easy to understand example that shows you how to display a math captcha image that requires the user to do a little thinking. Simple operation like subtraction or addition is displayed on the math captcha and the user needs to input the result. Math captcha result is stored in session and from the page doing the form validation you just need to compare the value from session with the value that the user inputed. (more…)
