Posted by Jon Slaughter on 06/06/07 01:34

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Jon Slaughter wrote:
>> is it possible to do image manipulation with php that isn't low level?
>>
>> I basically want to create some captchas manually (given a text string)
>> but I not sure if its possible to do. I want to ultimately do it in real
>> time if possible.
>>
>> The idea is to turn the text into an image and then apply some image
>> processing(transformations that make it more random such as adding fuzz
>> or changing colors, etc..) to make it harder to hack.
>>
>> How do websites normally go about creating them? Manually or offline?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
>
> Just google for CAPTCHA and PHP. There are several examples out there
> already - and all do it real time. It's really not that bad.
>

lol... I guess I should have done that first... looks quite easy. Although
I'm looking to do something original with the captchas that will require
more cycles... but atleast I have somewhere to start.

Thanks,
Jon

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