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Joomla! 1.5RC and Joomla! 1.0.13 have been released!

Tags: joomla, captcha

Now it is a turn to embed captcha in registration form and lost password form. Though the last is not very much necessary (it is to complete the picture).

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Tags: joomla, captcha

As it is known, the contact form in Joomla! can be used easily for automatic delivery of a spam (that is, instead of a e-mails database, it is quite enough to have a database of the sites created using Joomla!). To be protected from this, we’ll add CAPTCHA on contact form. As well as in previous article (CAPTCHA by own strength: Backend login form), we’ll use “kcaptcha” script, though it is possible to embed any other captcha-script in the same way.

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Tags: joomla, captcha

Allow me to begin a series of articles devoted to embedding of CAPTCHA in Joomla. I know only one project, allowing such embedding, it is Security Images. But this component has some disadvantage, e.g. its size is 1.5Mb in zip-archive. I’ll tell how to embed such a protection by own strength.

For the present I plan following articles:

• CAPTCHA by own strength: Backend login form
• CAPTCHA by own strength: Contact form
• CAPTCHA by own strength: Registration form and Lost password form
• CAPTCHA by own strength: Frontend login form

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Tags: joomla, module, popular of late

Today Roman Beranek has offered small improvement of the module, allowing to show tooltips with a number of hits the article has. I have slightly completed his idea and I call your attention to version 1.1.1 of the “Popular of late”.

Tags: joomla

Recently at forum.joomla.org RobInk (Global Moderator of the forum) has written, that

as you could see in the 1.0.x SVN changelog, work is done for a new release which will be 1.0.13. I have to note here that 1.0.x is in maintenance mode, so only security issues will be fixed, so not all the bugs listed on the tracker will be fixed. There is no date set for the new 1.0.13 release, this still needs testing.

Well, 1.0.12 is pretty stable and there are some significant improvements made in 1.0.13.

Also the information about Joomla! 1.0.13 has appeared on Joomla! performance testing where comparisons of various Joomla! Releases (Joomla! 1.0.13 RC, Joomla! 1.5 beta, and Joomla! 1.5 beta 2) on speed of page generation were spent. By the way, as results have shown, Joomla! 1.0.13 on PHP 5.2.2 with APC (Alternative PHP Cache) allows to reach the greatest speed.

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