CAPTCHA CREATORFrequently Asked Questions
Welcome to Captcha Creator Form FAQ. Here you can easily read the answers to the most asked questions. Please click on any question to see the answer. If your question is not in the list bellow, please Contact Us
General Questions
1. What are the System Requirements for Captcha Creator?2. How can I install it?
3. Can I install it on more than one website?
4. Can I use it on my existing web forms?
5. Does it work with Matts Scripts Formmail or Jack's FormMail or ...?
6. How can I adjust the size, fonts, or colors of the captcha?
7. I have succesfully completed the first two steps, but having problems with the 3rd
8. Why is it not free?
Errors Questions
1. Call to undefined function ImageTTFBBox()2. imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font
Q. What are the System Requirements for Captcha Creator?
A. Your web hosting account must have PHP 4.0 or newer, with GD and Freetype libraries installed and enabled. GD is a library in php that have functions to generate images, and Freetype is needed to display text by True Type fonts. Both libraries are installed by default on most web hosting accounts, and in the rare cases when they are not present they can be easily installed by the admin. Captcha Creator can be installed on a virtual hosting account, or a dedicated server, and it works fine on Linux, FreeBSB, Windows, and any other Operating Systems.
Q. How can I install it?
A. After download, you just need to copy the files to your web hosting account. Then, you need to include <img src="/captcha_code.php"> in your web form to have the image listed, and a call to CheckCaptcha() in your .php script that is processing the form ( also an include('captchac_lib.php'); is required ). That's it! More info can be found in the readme.txt file
Q. Can I install it on more than one website?
A. Depends on your License. If you have the Standard Edition, then you can only install it on a single website, and use it on all webforms inside that website. If you have the Developer Edition then you can install it on as many websites as you want, as long as they belong to you or you have developed them.
Q. Can I use it on my existing web forms?
A. Yes, you can add the captcha very easy to your existing web forms, by following three easy steps. You need to upload the script to your webserver, then paste a given HTML code to your webform, and then paste a given PHP code to the PHP file that is processing the web form. More instructions are available at the How To Install section
Q. Does it work with Matts Scripts Formmail or Jack's FormMail or ...?
A. Yes, Captcha Creator works with Matts Scripts Formmail, Jack's FormMail and about any other form to email script out there, as long as it is in php ( not perl ).
Q. How can I adjust the size, fonts, or colors of the captcha?
A. There is a configuration file containing all settings of the script. You can adjust this configuration file easily with our online tool, that will alow you to customize the captcha image. After getting the desired effect, just save the configuration file to your computer and then upload it to your web server, inside the captcha folder.
Q. I have succesfully completed the first two steps, but having problems with the 3rd
A. If you are having any kind of problems installing our Captcha script, please contact us. We will be glad with assisting you installing it, at no extra charge ( You have to be a registered customer, tough ). If you got your hands on an unregistered copy of Captcha Creator, you got it to show on your web form and you like what you see but you have problems with the 3rd step, please consider purchasing it before contacting us. We kindly ask you the above because you can be 100% sure we will help you solve the installing problem in no time, there is always the 100% unconditional money back guarantee, and we prefer to focus our resources on registered customers ( we also help unregistered users but this is subject of our limited spare time, after we support registered customers and do scheduled work on improving the script )
Q. Why is it not free?
A. There are several Captcha scripts out there offered for free. If you like them, and do not want to spend any money, you are free to use them. We decided that we do not want our script downloaded by kiddies webmasters to be placed on obscure sites, and we also don't want our script seen on many amateur websites around, so we ask for a small fee to filter kiddies and amateurs out. Our goal is to deliver a professional Captcha PHP Script, with technical support, help with installation and customization, this is not just some simple captcha script made by some student in its spare time.
Q. Call to undefined function ImageTTFBBox()
A. This error is given when your server does not have GD support installed. GD Graphics Library support is needed to draw images with PHP. Please ask your web hosting provider or server administrator to install GD support to your web server, he can easily download the files from www.libgd.org, it is free and most web hosting are providing it at no extra cost.
Q. imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font
A. This error is given when your server does not have FreeType support installed. FreeType support is needed to access True Type fonts. Please ask your web hosting provider or server administrator to install FreeType support to your web server, he can easily download the files from www.freetype.org, it is free and most web hosting are providing it at no extra cost.
If you have any problems which are not supported above, please contact as soon as possible.
