A Simple CAPTCHA Script Using PHP

CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, it’s a very common functionality to use at the time of submit data to prevent machines’ access of your website. In this post, we will develop CAPTCHA script using PHP with help of easy three steps. This is a very basic captcha that is generated by PHP.

The following files will use in this Captcha Example

• catpcha.jpg – A Image for the captcha
• captcha.php – This file is used to generate a captcha with PHP using PHP session.
• index.php – This file is used to show the captcha image to the end user.

Demo Sample

Implement CAPTCHA Using PHP

Step 1-We will put the capcha image in the project folder.

This image will be used to generate a captcha image using the PHP GD library. This is a only dependency(GD library) with this example.

Download Image

You can use save as image option as well using right click.

Step 2- We need to create a new file captcha.php file in project and put the blow PHP code into this file.

<?php  
session_start();  
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");   
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");   
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");   
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);  
header("Pragma: no-cache");   
  
function _generateRandom($length=6)  
{  
    $_rand_src = array(  
        array(48,57) //digits  
        , array(97,122) //lowercase chars  
//      , array(65,90) //uppercase chars  
    );  
    srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);  
    $random_string = "";  
    for($i=0;$i<$length;$i++){  
        $i1=rand(0,sizeof($_rand_src)-1);  
        $random_string .= chr(rand($_rand_src[$i1][0],$_rand_src[$i1][1]));  
    }  
    return $random_string;  
}  
  
$im = @imagecreatefromjpeg("captcha.jpg");   
$rand = _generateRandom(3);  
$_SESSION['captcha'] = $rand;  
ImageString($im, 5, 2, 2, $rand[0]." ".$rand[1]." ".$rand[2]." ", ImageColorAllocate ($im, 0, 0, 0));  
$rand = _generateRandom(3);  
ImageString($im, 5, 2, 2, " ".$rand[0]." ".$rand[1]." ".$rand[2], ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 0, 0));  
Header ('Content-type: image/jpeg');  
imagejpeg($im,NULL,100);  
ImageDestroy($im);  
?>

This file is used to generate a CAPTCHA image using the GD library and rendered to the view page of the project where it will call.

Step 3-We will create a template file index.php in the project folder and put the below PHP code into this file.

<div class="container">

<h1>A Simple Example Of PHP CAPTCHA Script</h1>

<?php  
if(isset($_POST["captcha"]))  
if($_SESSION["captcha"]==$_POST["captcha"])  
{  
    //CAPTHCA is valid; proceed the message: save to database, send by e-mail …  
    echo '<div class="alert alert-success"-->CAPTHCA is valid; proceed the message</div>';  
}  
else  
{  
    echo '<div class="alert alert-danger">CAPTHCA is not valid; ignore submission</div>';  
}  
?>
<form role="form" method="post">

<div class="form-group">
    <label for="email">Email address:</label>
    <input type="email" class="form-control" id="email">
</div>


<div class="form-group">
    <label for="pwd">Password:</label>
    <input type="password" class="form-control" id="pwd">
</div>


<div class="form-group">

<div class="col-sm-5 pull-left"><label for="pwd">Anti Spam code, Please Enter 3 Black Symbols</label>
    <img src="captcha.php" alt="captcha image"></div>


<div class="col-sm-7 pull-right"><input type="text" name="captcha" size="3″ maxlength=" 3″="" class="form-control"></div>

</div>


<div class="form-group" style="padding-top:75px;">
	<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
</div>

</form>

In the above code, I am creating an HTML form to show a captcha image and display captcha validation messages to the user.

Demo & Download Code Of CAPTCHA Script with PHP

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