Captcha not working!

[brduran]

Hi guys,

My 'captcha' is not working. See it here please:
http://www.teknician.com/link_exchange/submit.php

Any ideas, please? Thank you!

[Ap0s7le]

Hello brduran, welcome to the forums.

Is GD installed on the server? If so does it have FreeType compiled with it?
Find more info in this thread.
http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=196

Also try creating a php file with this inside it and post the link here for us to view.
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Thank you for choosing PHPLD.

[brduran]

Thank you Ap0s7le

Here's a link to phpinfo.php
http://www.teknician.com/phpinfo.php

I read the posting you suggested, probably that's my problem too. Any help appreciated!

Thank you!

[yktan]

Hi brduran,

GD is installed on your server but not compiled with freetype support. You have to contact your hosting company about that problem.

If freetype is supported, you should be able to see the following entry in the GD table:
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Regards,
York Kie

[brduran]

Thank you yktan

I just sent two email messages to the website hosting server with this,

The following snippet from PHP.NET concerning what needs compiled for the function imagettftext to work.

--with-gd
--enable-gd-native-ttf
--with-png
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib/zlib-1.2.1
--with-ttf
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib/jpeg-6b/
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib/freetype-2.1.9/
--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6/

Lets see if they correct the problem. Thank you for your help guys. I'll keep you post it.

[Ap0s7le]

Righto

Consider giving a donation if this helped you, as that will help us pay our bills :)

Thanks

[brduran]

Hi guys,

I got this response from the server hosting our website:

"Unfortunately our software vendor distributes PHP and Apache as a binary package, so it is not possible for us to recompile PHP with extra options.

StormWeb Support"

Is it there such a thing as a binary package?

Thank you!

[David]

Hi bduran,

We will likely be moving to a system for captcha that is supported by more hosting configurations soon, so if you are able to simply disable this feature for right now, you can bet that we will have a compatible one later. If you are able to make a donation, I could put someone to task on this right away.

Thanks,
David

[Boby]

Sorry I bring this thread back into light but:
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Are they kidding?? How can they tell you it is not possible to install another binary package, specially the one with GD support for PHP?? I don't think there is a more faster and easyer way to install a package than run a simple command and restart the Apache server. LoooooL They don't have to recompile, or do anything more.
That are reall newbies :lol:

Boby