Anti-Spam Characters

[sjsmlov]

I just installed the guest book and cant seem to get the anti-spam characters to work. Nothing pops up theres no background image and theres no characters. I made sure that the font was uploaded and the background image was uploaded and put the full path on antispam (ex. /guestbook/bg.png)

Any clue whats happening and how to fix it?

[HelionPrime]

me too i have a prblem with it,
this error occur when I try to post a comment "The following fields contains an error. Please review and correct the fields.

* You did't enter the correct anti-spam characters!"

help me plz

[Ernie]

Hi!

This issue is probably due to PHP missing the PHP extension GD (or GD 2.x). If you don't have control over the server, there is probably not much you can do except ask the host if they can install GD for you. If you're using guestbook 1.0.9, you can however avoid the whole issue by opening config.php in you favorite editor, and set $CONFIG['AntispamType'] to header. I.e. replace a line looking something like this

PHP Code:

$CONFIG['AntispamType']     = 'picture'; 


with this:

PHP Code:

$CONFIG['AntispamType']     = 'header'; 


The header method should prevent almost all spambots from spamming your guestbook without requiring any pictures to be generated, and thus not requiring GD. The downside is it's a bit experimental, i.e. a few users might be mistaken for a spambot, though I haven't heard of any yet.