Comments on: Contact form with Lightbox and jQuery

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:13:01 +0000

Kat,
well done you found the problem. Line ends on windows systems are different from them on Linux systems.
Thanks for sharing your solution!

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:29:36 +0000

I did finally get the code to work for me. The issue was with these two lines:
$response = explode(PHP_EOL, $data); if ($response[0] == 'true') {
For some reason, the explode function was not recognizing the first “PHP_EOL”, so it was combining the first and second array values, making it “true\nsuccess” for a correct response. Because of this, the next if statement was always false, making errmessage = “Can’t validate the Captcha image.” I changed the first line to this:
$response = explode("\n", $data);
and it worked. Thanks to Olaf for all his help with this.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:22:27 +0000

Hello Kat,

please send me your php code by email

Olaf

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:43:50 +0000

I did what you suggested, verified the reCaptcha keys, and replaced the code, all with the same results. Changing the code inside email.php didn’t do anything, because my .ajax function is coming back with an error (parsererror), so the response from email.php is bad. I added this code:

error: function(test, status) { alert("test: " + test + " | status: " + status); }

to my js file, and that’s how I know I’m getting an error, ‘status’ comes back as ‘parsererror.’

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:33:07 +0000

change this code inside the php script


if ($response[1] == 'incorrect-captcha-sol') {
				$resp['errmessage'] = 'The entered text from the Captcha image is wrong.';
			} else {
				$resp['errmessage'] = 'Can't validate the Captcha image.';
			}

to this code


if ($response[1] == 'incorrect-captcha-sol') {
				$resp['errmessage'] = 'The entered text from the Captcha image is wrong.';
			} else {
				$resp['errmessage'] = 'Can't validate the Captcha image. Error code: '.$response[1];
			}

What kind of error code do you get?

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:28:04 +0000

Hello Kat,

do you double checked all settings from reCaptcha? Compare both ID’s, the website’s domain/address you have entered for this IDs.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:26:27 +0000

Hello Kat,

$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] is a server variable which holds the IP address from each visitor, you don’t need to change this.

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:02:32 +0000

Forgot to mention one thing, the status comes back as ‘parsererror’, and the error message is ‘undefined’

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:59:33 +0000

I stripped out the reCaptcha code, and sure enough, the code works with no problems. Any suggestions on where to go from here to get the Captcha to work? Thanks in advance!

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:32:26 +0000

Hi Olaf -

I noticed something I wanted to ask you about before I stripped out the reCaptcha code. There is a parameter, $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]. I still have this code as you have displayed it here, and looking at the reCaptcha help, this is supposed to be the user’s address. Is this the case? Should I change this code to the user’s IP address, and if so, how do I do this? Thanks!