Recaptcha V3.x

[ridexbuilder]

That worked! Just as advertised! I made it a simple math question...

(example question)

define('ENTRY_ANTI_ROBOT_TEXT','<- 1+1= ?');

(example answer)

if ( ($antirobot == '2') OR ($antirobot == 'two') )

Thanks for saving me endless hours of poking at the code!

Great- you're very welcome.
You can apply the same principal to other pages, such as Tell A Friend but I usually just turn that off 'cos it's just a spam magnet.
Better to just use "Social Bookmarks".

if ( ($antirobot == '2') OR ($antirobot == 'two') OR  ($antirobot == 'Two')  )

Do you have a PayPal tip jar??

Sure do, bud. paypal.me/ejsolutions

[ridexbuilder]

Many thanks for the beer money! Very much appreciated.
If you'd like the use of a free VPS until this Black Friday (thereabouts) to help with tests etc. then shoot me a PM. I paid for it but it's unused.

[JRR]

I'm good - have VPN (via BitDefender) and lots of room on flippers.com to develop shopping carts. I have full CP rights.

I also usually develop in localhost, then install in a hidden directory online to finish testing the job before going live.

Warm beer - not sure I'd like that, but next time I'm over to the UK I will give it a try...

Thanks!

[JRR]

Just a note that a week later and still no Google 'customers' - thanks again ridexbuilder, you have saved me a lot of time scrubbing those 'customers' every day!

If you haven't added his code to your site yet, then I suggest you do it now, unless you like purging fake customers that is...

[Markcm]

Heads up, in my experience V2 is now updated. Although I've moved to opencart, I was getting blasted with bots creating accounts. V2 no longer slowed them down. V3 stopped the bot accounts 100%.

I think you figured it out but I just noticed my typo here. This was supposed to say "in my experience V2 is now outdated", not "updated".

[ridexbuilder]

Just a note that a week later and still no Google 'customers' - thanks again ridexbuilder, you have saved me a lot of time scrubbing those 'customers' every day!
If you haven't added his code to your site yet, then I suggest you do it now, unless you like purging fake customers that is...

Great! Glad it's working out for ya. Amazing how simple things can be so effective. Better than trying to suss out some of those recaptcha puzzles too.

Note: good idea to also add it to Contact Us.

[JRR]

Ah, right, I will do that - add your mod to "Contact Us", I don't think my parts guy is getting spams from there, and he did say the volume of registrations plummeted once I added your simple mod.

[JRR]

Had to add the mod to Contact Us, getting messages there from annoying bots! I had a health problem in early May and was off for a bit. Better now!

In catalog/templates/fallback/content (if no new templates)/contact_us.tpl.php the bit goes just after about line 130 "<?php } ?>".

Also change "$messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_SECURITY_CHECK_ERROR);" to "$messageStack->add('contact_us', ENTRY_SECURITY_CHECK_ERROR);" for /catalog/contact_us.php additional code...

I think that is it.

[ridexbuilder]

Glad that you've bounced back from health issues.

I checked and have it working on one site, so have taken a quick look at the code that I used..

templates/your_template/content/contact_us.tpl.php
Right after the Recaptcha section around line 178 onwards

<!-- end modification for reCaptcha -->
<?php } ?>

                </table>
            </td>
            
          </tr>
        </table></td>
      </tr>
      
      <tr>
        <td><?php echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '10'); ?></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>      
          <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2">
            <tr>
             <td class="main" width="150">
                <?php echo ENTRY_ANTI_ROBOT; ?>
             </td>
             <td class="main">
                <?php echo tep_draw_input_field('antirobot') . '&nbsp;' . (tep_not_null(ENTRY_ANTI_ROBOT_TEXT) ? '<span class="inputRequirement">' . ENTRY_ANTI_ROBOT_TEXT . '</span>': ''); ?>
             </td>
            </tr>
         </table>
       </td>
      </tr>

Nothing else added in that file.

catalog/contact_us.php around line 28

// end modification for reCaptcha

    $antirobot = tep_db_prepare_input($_POST['antirobot']);

Around line 97

// end modification for reCaptcha

    // if  ($antirobot != 'yes')  {
    if ( ($antirobot == 'yes') OR ($antirobot == 'Yes') ) {
       $error = false;
       } else {
       $error = true;
       $messageStack->add(contact_us', ENTRY_SECURITY_CHECK_ERROR);
     }

Note the response to the question is also specified in the lines above

catalog/includes/languages/english/contact_us.php bottom of the file should look like this:

define('TEXT_REVEAL_EMAIL', 'Click to reveal email');

define('ENTRY_ANTI_ROBOT','Anti-robot question');
define('ENTRY_ANTI_ROBOT_TEXT','<- Type the word yes');
?>

Thanks @JRR - I missed the $messageStack->add('contact_us', change
Note: this gives you scope to have different questions/answers for each of the forms, if necessary.

[JRR]

I moved the code to around line 104 so the question is just after the Email: entry. Otherwise it is placed at the very bottom and may not be spotted as easily.