Visual confirmation image

[jack@feds201]

Well,

Now that the upc has come along enought to allow me to register, I noticed one annoying thing on registeration.

With the random letter/number string which you must input to prevent from robots, I kept getting it "wrong". Finally, I realised that the letters in the pic were all uppercase & I was typing in lowercase. Personally, I'd recommend that the user's input is run through strtoupper(). That way, no matter whether they typed in lower or upper case, it would work.

That's my discuession

[psoTFX]

This is like the fifth message saying this ... tell me, how do you interpret the phrase "Enter the code exactly as you see it in the image"?

[jack@feds201]

This is like the fifth message saying this ... tell me, how do you interpret the phrase "Enter the code exactly as you see it in the image"?

hehe... you actually think people read? 8)

well... I guess if you plan to have lowercase letters too, then the strtoupper() would not be needed. But, personally, I think that would be a not-so-good idea. All I really want is to prevent someone from making 1000 accounts on my forums. I really don't want to get 100 emails with my replys being: tell me, how do you interpret the phrase "Enter the code exactly as you see it in the image"

oh well... thank god for opensource

//me goes to shut-up now

[SHS`]

Enlightment comes from reading.

Perhaps it needs wording as "This is case sensitive... blah blah blah".

Ho hum.

[psoTFX]

I guess we have no choice ... mind you, as noted I doubt many will read the message anyway

[Red~Ice]

what are robots?[quote]With the random letter/number string which you must input to prevent from robots

[Graham]

Automated scripts which try to bulk register users, there's a few around that people use to spam the member lists of forums.

@Paul: People never read the registration agreements, so you don't really think they'll pay any attention to little things like that do you?

[dhn]

We should add a check that looks if the wrong confirmation code was entered if it was a case mixup. Then a big message should say:

"It says case-sensitive. What are you? Stupid or just retarded?"

[jack@feds201]

We should add a check that looks if the wrong confirmation code was entered if it was a case mixup. Then a big message should say:

"It says case-sensitive. What are you? Stupid or just retarded?"

hehe... I love that one 8)

[beeurd]

I'm sure it's go down well with the newbs aswell