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Joomla and Captcha

Looking to prevent the amount of spam that one of my clients was receiving, I investigated how to install a CAPTCHA utility on a Joomla contact form.

You can see it in action at Ryan Gibbons Real Estate

After looking at a few Joomla extensions, I settled on a solution called "Captcha Plugin for Joomla!" (yes, a creative name), a simple yet effective plug-in created by JoomlaXi. You need to register to download the extension from the JoomlaXi page, but it's free.


Developer Note: Before installing the plug-in, it's a good idea to unzip the package and then go in and edit the en-GB.plg_xi_captcha.ini file. English is not the first language of the plug-in developers, so you can go into the .ini file and fix tha grammatical errors in there. The first line in the .ini file is the one that I found needed changing.  The .ini file can also be found at /administrator/language/en-GB/ inside your Joomla installation.

Initially, the first line read: "Please enter the text in box , you see in below image", which is the message that a visitor will see above the CAPTCHA code.

I changed it to read: "Please enter the text that you see in the box below:", which is a little easier to read, for an error message.
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