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Creating a formmail.php form with CAPTCHA functionality that does not require cookies
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5th of September, 2014

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Using the CAPTCHA feature in formmail.php requires that users have cookies enabled in their browser to successfully submit your form. A user not accepting cookies from your site would receive an error such as this:

Error=Failed to obtain authorization to send you email

Fortunately there is a workaround that will allow users blocking cookies to submit a form without compromising the integrity of the CAPTCHA check; however, it requires a few simple steps to convert your form into a PHP script that uses sessions to store the same data on the server.

Here is a step-by-step procedure to convert your existing HTML form to a PHP form than will implement sessions:

1. Rename the file containing your form by changing then file extension from .htm (or .html) to .php:

contact_us.htmbecomescontact_us.php

2. Add a PHP call to start a new session just above the very first, opening tag in your file:
<?php
session_start();
?>
<html>
   <head>
   .
   .
   .

3. You will need to append the PHP session ID to the following URLs in your form using this format:

• In the URL to call formmail.php:

<form method="post" action="http://www.yoursite.com/formmail.php">

becomes

<form method="post" action="http://www.yoursite.com/formmail.php?<?php echo SID; ?>">

• In the URL to call verifyimg.php:

<img src="verifyimg.php" ...

becomes

<img src="verifyimg.php?<?php echo SID; ?>"

• In the Javascript call to reload the image (if applicable):

document.vimg.src = "verifyimg.php";

becomes

document.vimg.src = "verifyimg.php?<?php echo SID; ?>";


Now your form will function properly for all users, even if they do not have cookies enabled.


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