Here's my working code:
Code:
<?php
class CaptchaController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
function init() {
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender();
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoController();
}
public function pngAction() {
//Let’s generate a totally random string using md5
$md5_hash = md5(rand(0,999));
//We don’t need a 32 character long string so we trim it down to 5
$security_code = substr($md5_hash, 15, 5);
//$_SESSION[‘captcha_code’] = $security_code;
//Set the image width and height
$width = 200;
$height = 40;
//Create the image resource
$image = ImageCreate($width, $height);
//We are making three colors, white, black and gray
$white = ImageColorAllocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
$black = ImageColorAllocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
$grey = ImageColorAllocate($image, 204, 204, 204);
//Make the background black
ImageFill($image, 0, 0, $black);
//Add randomly generated string in white to the image
ImageString($image, 3, 30, 3, $security_code, $white);
//Throw in some lines to make it a little bit harder for any bots to break
ImageRectangle($image,0,0,$width-1,$height-1,$grey);
imageline($image, 0, $height/2, $width, $height/2, $grey);
imageline($image, $width/2, 0, $width/2, $height, $grey);
//Tell the browser what kind of file is come in
header("Content-Type: image/png");
//Output the newly created image
imagepng($image);
}
}
?>
I still need to do some work on the captcha itself, and use Zend_Session, but this should be a good starting point for somebody.
Then I just implemented the image as a CSS background-image as an easy work around Zend_Form. Checking the input against the session variable created by the captcha script would be an easy validator to add also.
Hope this helps
