Hi, I'm trying to use this module in a big site which needs to have page caching enabled for all the pages, but most of the pages need to have comments. I can't put the comment's form box in another page by design. Is there a way to open the captcha form in a separate page once a user submit the comment so we can have the page caching enabled for all the other users just viewing the page and not commenting?
Thanks!

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soxofaan’s picture

soxofaan commented
Title: Captcha in a separate page? » Show CAPTCHA after first submit

if I understood you correctly, this is the workflow you want:

  • visitor gets cached page, enters a comment in a form (without CAPTCHA) on that same page and hits submit/preview
  • visitors gets comment form again (and a preview of comment?), now with a CAPTCHA to fill in.

This is not possible out of the box.
With a custom module it should be possible to achieve this workflow though.

But before we take that route: have you already considered Mollom? It provides a workflow that is pretty close to what you want.

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mburak commented

I'll try Mollom first.

Thanks!

udijw’s picture

udijw commented

Thanks for the Mollom idea.
To note, Mollom charges for big sites so it is not an optimal solution.

I was thinking that one way to implement this is to change the comment preview form id and then ask for CAPTCHA only on the preview form Id.

I don't even know if this is possible though, and would appreciate some pointers on how to try and attack this.

udi

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soxofaan commented

change the comment preview form id and then ask for CAPTCHA only on the preview form Id.

Having to solve a CAPTCHA only on first preview/post is actually a built-in feature that was broken until yesterday #714414: regression: preview on comments do not respect persistence
update to the latest CVS or dev snapshot and it should be fixed

Apart from that, the workflow where you get a CAPTCHA after preview or in a second phase is technically possible too with custom coding. Some pointers:
#743056: Document how to add a CAPTCHA programmatically
#536274: Show Captcha After X Unsuccessful Attempts
However, I remember this to be a bad idea in Drupal 5: http://drupal.org/node/116050#comment-620663 . I don't know if this is still the case in Drupal 6.

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udijw commented

@ soxofaan thanks for the pointers and for the explanation on the inners of how preview works.
I should have realized that spam bots don't actually use previews :)

udi

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wundo commented
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