SYNOPSIS

use Catalyst qw/Captcha/;
MyApp->config->{ 'Plugin::Captcha' } = {
session_name => 'captcha_string',
new => {
width => 80,
height => 30,
lines => 7,
gd_font => 'giant',
},
create => [qw/normal rect/],
particle => [100],
out => {force => 'jpeg'}
};
sub captcha : Local {
my ($self, $c) = @_;
$c->create_captcha();
}
sub do_post : Local {
my ($self, $c) = @_;
if ($c->validate_captcha($c->req->param('validate')){
..
} else {
..
}
}
#validate with CP::FormValidator::Simple
sub do_post : Local {
my ($self, $c) = @_;
$c->form(
validate => [['EQUAL_TO',$c->captcha_string]]
)
}

DESCRIPTION

This plugin create, validate Captcha.

Note: This plugin uses GD::SecurityImage and requires a session plugins like Catalyst::Plugin::Session

METHODS

create_captcha

Create Captcha image and output it.

validate_captcha

  $c->validate_captcha($key);

validate key

captcha_string

Return a string for validation which is stroed in session.

clear_captcha_string

Clear a string which is stroed in session.

CONFIGURATION

session_name

The keyword for storing captcha string

new

create

particle

out

These parameters are passed to each GD::Security's method. Please see GD::SecurityImage for details.

AUTHOR

Masahiro Nagano <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Masahiro Nagano

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.