{"id":254,"date":"2008-02-17T12:38:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T03:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/17\/dave-your-forms-are-evil\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T03:38:57","slug":"dave-your-forms-are-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/17\/dave-your-forms-are-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave, your forms are EVIL!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while ago, I got this email from a friend of mine:<\/p>\n

\ni left a long comment on your starbucks entry, but i got a character wrong in your CAPTCHA, and it told me to click the “back” button and try again. however, when i did that, all the entries in the form were BLANK! I LOST MY COMMENT! AIEEEE!!!!!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a problem, because I don’t like evil in any form. Particularly in my forms. I’ve been really busy, but spent about thirty minutes poking around at the bBlog internals (looks I chose a bad horse: the bBlog project seems to have died!) and made the field values sticky on an error with the captcha submission. <\/p>\n

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If you are interested in the changes, here is a diff file that you can apply via patch:
\npatch -b bBlog.class.php bBlog.captcha.diff<\/code> against an unmodified version 0.7.6 bBlog.class.php from the bBlog install. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Once that is done, you have to modify your template to add value=”{$commentFieldPosterXXX}” where XXX is some value. The only exception is {$commentreplytitle} which remains the same.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Here is the relevant portion from my template:<\/p>\n


\n<div class=\"formleft\">Comment Title<\/div>
\n<div class=\"formright\"><input name=\"title\" size=\"80\" type=\"text\" id=\"title\" value=\"{$commentreplytitle}\"\/><\/div>
\n<div class=\"clear\"> <\/div>
\n<div class=\"formleft\">Your Name: <\/div>
\n<div class=\"formright\"><input name=\"name\" size=\"80\" type=\"text\" id=\"author\" value=\"{$commentFieldPosterName}\"\/><\/div>
\n<div class=\"clear\"> <\/div>
\n<div class=\"formleft\">Email Address: <\/div>
\n<div class=\"formright\"><input name=\"email\" size=\"80\" type=\"text\" id=\"email\" value=\"{$commentFieldPosterEmail}\"\/>
\n          Make Public? <input class=\"checkbox\" name=\"public_email\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"public_email\" value=\"1\" checked=\\
\n\"checked\"\/><\/div>
\n<div class=\"clear\"> <\/div>
\n<div class=\"formleft\">Website: <\/div>
\n<div class=\"formright\"><input name=\"website\" size=\"80\" type=\"text\" id=\"url\" value=\"{$commentFieldPosterWebsite}\" \/>
\n          Make Public? <input class=\"checkbox\" name=\"public_website\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"public_website\" value=\"1\" chec\\
\nked=\"checked\" \/><\/div>
\n<div class=\"clear\"> <\/div>
\n<div class=\"formleft\"><img src=\"\/randomImage.php\" alt=\"verification image\"><br>Image verification:<\/div>
\n<div class=\"formright\"><font color=\"red\">{$commentFieldError}<\/font><\/div>
\n<div class=\"formright\"><input name=\"verification\" type=\"text\" id=\"verification\" \/><\/div>
\n<div class=\"clear\"> <\/div>
\n<div class=\"formleft\">Comment:<\/div><\/p>\n
<div class=\"formright\"><textarea name=\"comment\" cols=\"80\" rows=\"10\" wrap=\"VIRTUAL\" id=\"text\">
\n{$commentFieldPosterComment}<\/textarea><\/div>
\n<\/PRE>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
Of course, you also need to follow the relevant directions in my original post on adding a captcha for comment protection in bblog<\/a>.  But it looks like things are working well for me here.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The diff patch is here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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