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April 2007 - Posts

CAPTCHA for Community Server 2007

I'm happy to announce that CodeBetter.Com is carrying on the legacy of CAPTCHA for Community Server. CAPTCHA for CS2007 is the next generation of CS Guru Dave Burke's most excellent CAPTCHA control for Community Server 2.1. This version is implemented as a Control Adapter which allows CAPTCHA to be added to Community Server site-wide without touching any ASPX or ASCX markup code.

You can get the dll and source code here *.

* Latest Version - April 29th 2007

IMPORTANT NOTE: If the form in your ASPX control specifies a validation group, your controls must also specify the same group. Some skins that ship with CS2007 have a validation group specified for the form, but not for the controls. The CAPTCHA control will not work for these forms. To fix, either remove the validation group from the form code or add to all of your form's controls.

EX: Form specifying a validation group:

                <CSFile:CreateEntryCommentForm runat="server"
                        MessageTextBoxId="CommentBody"
                        NameTextBoxId="CommentName"
                        RememberCheckboxId="CommentRemember"
                        SubjectTextBoxId="CommentTitle"
                        SubmitButtonId="CommentSubmit"
                        UrlTextBoxId="CommentWebsite"
                        ControlIdsToHideFromRegisteredUsers="RememberWrapper,AnonymousUser"
                        ValidationGroup="CreateCommentForm"
                    >

Must also specify the validation group in the controls to be validated:

Posted Apr 27 2007, 12:17 PM by Brendan Tompkins with 38 comment(s)

Filed under: CAPTCHA, Community Server

CodeBetter.Com Community Server 2007 Upgrade!

If you're a regular visitor. You may have noticed that today CodeBetter.Com has a new site skin. Hopefully this skin is better to look at, and loads faster than our old ugly digs.

I'm happy to report that we're up and running on Telligent's Community Server 2007, which was released earlier this week. If you're a CS user, you've got to check out this version. The codebase has come leaps and bounds since the last release, with all sorts of goodness in the skinning and template departments. It was such a pleasure to code this latest version of CodeBetter with the new bits. All the guys over there deserve a big pat on the back.

One of the controls that I could not go live with with this latest version was Dave Burke's outstandingly fabulous CS CAPTCHA control for comment spam filtering. His version was for CS 2.1, so I had some coding to do to get this working. I'm happy to report that I've built a version that can be deployed with CS 2007, and the first chance I get I'll release the source and blog about it here. Dave's asked me to release it, so I guess CodeBetter will be the new home for this control.

(p.s. I know we have 45 validation errors, and I'm working on it!)