Re: spam protection boxes

I suggest using GD to generate the images in PHP then output them to a browser. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php I use GD 1, as I have had issues loading fonts into GD 2 Good luck Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dash McElroy" <php@l1te.net> To: "Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG)" <B.A.T.Svensson@lumc.nl> Cc: "Dash McElroy" <php@l1te.net>; "Blue Presley" <blue928@carolina.rr.com>; <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 5:23 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] spam protection boxes > I read an article in Wired (I think) that said that spammers are > filling out Yahoo info automatically, then when it comes to that, it spits > out the graphic to someone at a computer who looks at the graphic, then > types in the letters, then the spammer's script keeps going. Nasty. > > -Dash > > QUOTE OF THE DAY: > > ` > > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) wrote: > > > It will just last a matter of time before the spam devils applies > > patter recognition algorithms to circumvent this things. :( > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Dash McElroy [mailto:php@l1te.net] > > > Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 7:49 AM > > > To: Blue Presley > > > Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net > > > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] spam protection boxes > > > > > > > > > I actually just got back from the PHPCon convention in Milbrae (South San > > > Francisco), Ca. I honestly forget who suggested the idea, it may have been > > > Rasmus himself (my short term memory is shot), but the idea mentioned was > > > to have some random text pushed into a GD call to automatically generate > > > the image. Obviously then, if you supply the data to GD, you can verify > > > the input as well. > > > > > > Voila! > > > > > > -Dash > > > > > > Weiler's Law: > > > Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it > > > himself. > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Blue Presley wrote: > > > > > > > Yahoo and a couple other companies use boxes to help block spam. before > > > > posting an ad on their classifieds, you see a box with word in it.. it's a > > > > graphic. and you have to type the letters or words from the box into a > > > > text box to proceed, and that ensures that a real person is at the > > > > keyboard. anyone know how this can be accomplished in PHP? > > > > > > > > thx > > > > > > > > blue > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >