[pmwiki-users] Experimental captcha recipe

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:01:42AM +0100, marc wrote:
> > Patrick R. Michaud said...
> > I know folk aren't enamoured by object orientation around here - I can't 
> > help it being a Java and Ruby dude - but I felt that a captcha recipe is 
> > an ideal candidate for using the strategy pattern.
> > ...
> > In this way, the recipe can easily be extended with the admin's 
> > preferred captcha algorithms, without the recipe needing to be updated - 
> > nor would it need to include each and every available algorithm.[2]
> 
> This is already this case.  Changing the captcha algorithm is
> as simple as providing alternate handlers for ?action=captchaimage 
> and/or the {$Captcha} page variable.  No modifications to the recipe
> are required.
> 
> And yes, this can easily be done on a per-group or per-page basis.

Fair enough, I'll just pinch your algorithms then ;-) I don't agree that 
it's as easy, nor that it easily facilitates a common interface, but it 
is the pmWiki way, so I'll butt out.

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Cheers,
Marc