modCaptcha: A Lylacaptcha Plugin for FarCry

Sparked by the desire to run my blog in FarCry, and being inundated with blog spam, I've cobbled together a nifty little plugin for FarCry called modCaptcha that uses LylaCaptcha to generate a captcha formtool.

Built by Peter J. Farrell et al, LylaCaptcha is a Captcha created for implementation with ColdFusion. A Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used to determine whether or not a user is human. A common type of Captcha requires the user to enter the correct string of characters that have been distorted in an image. A Captcha can also be an response to a question that most people should be able to answer. This library is released under the Apache 2.0 license at http://lyla.maestropublishing.com/

The plugin is real easy to install, and works with FarCry's awesome formtool system to build a LylaCaptcha image for your form. The formtool is used just the same as any of the formtools you may be familiar with in v4.0 – just create a boolean property and set the fttype="lylacaptcha". The captcha should be automatically created and managed.

<cfcomponent extends="farcry.core.packages.types.types" name="blogcomment" displayname="Blog Comment" hint="blog comment"> <cfproperty name="subject" type="string" hint="Subject of comment." required="no" default="" blabel="true" ftlabel="Subject" ftvalidation="required" /> <cfproperty name="description" type="longchar" hint="Comment description." required="no" default="" ftlabel="Description" /> <cfproperty name="commenthandle" type="string" hint="Name or handle of poster." required="no" default="" ftlabel="Name" /> <cfproperty name="email" type="string" hint="Email address of poster." required="no" default="" ftlabel="Email" ftvalidation="validate-email" /> <cfproperty name="website" type="string" hint="Website address of poster." required="no" default="" fttype="url" ftlabel="Website" /> <cfproperty name="parentid" type="uuid" hint="Parent content object reference." required="no" ftjoin="farblogpost" ftlabel="Parent Blog Post" /> <!--- implement modCaptcha ---> <cfproperty name="bCaptcha" type="boolean" hint="Flag for lylacaptcha." default="0" required="no" fttype="lylacaptcha" ftlabel="Captcha" /> </cfcomponent>

I've updated the FarCry Plugin Portal with installation instructions; modCaptcha Documentation

As it's a little personal project, I decided to try hosting my modCaptcha code at Google Code. So far so good. modCaptcha also released under Apache 2.0.

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