captcha and email not working on wamp

Hi, I installed phpbb3 on my wamp stack and found users could not register as the captcha image was blank. So I disabled that requirement and found the confirmation email sent to new accounts failed.

Ideally I would like both captcha and email confirmation to work – as I believe they’re best practice.

any advise please

richard101

Hi Richard,

We don’t include a smtp server in the stack, so to get mail to work, manual configuration is required. Have a look at phpBB3 documentation to find out how to do it exactly. As for the captcha, I’m afraid you are right, I haven’t been able to make it work on Linux. We’ll look into it, the web server log files are not showing any error, so it may be difficult to track down.

Cheers

I had downloaded a couple of weeks ago and installed phpBB3 without a clue that this does not work.

any idea of this works now?

Sam

Hi,

We will try to reproduce and fix it. Thanks for reporting it.

Hi all,

We have tested our (W|L)ampstack, and captchas methods are working well on them.
It seems this is a native phpBB bug that should be solved by them in the future.

You can test the working feature with this simple script:

<?php  
   
$image = imagecreatetruecolor(170, 60);  
$black = imagecolorallocate($image, 10, 100, 200);  
$green = imagecolorallocate($image, 150, 200, 50);  
   
imagefilledrectangle($image,0,0,399,99,$green);  
imagestring($image, 5, 20, 10, "hello!", $black); 
header("Content-type: image/png");  
imagepng($image);  
?>  

Deploy it at [stack]/apache2/htdocs/captcha.php and browse it.

Please visit http://www.phpbb.com/community for more info.

Cheers.