- Multiple inputs may be interconnected in such way that client side events that occur on one input can trigger actions on the context of other inputs. Developers may use input interconnection support without writing Javascript code.
- Can be extended with new types of input controls plug-in classes.
- Custom input plug-in classes can be used to support for handling client site events on the server side without submitting the form or redrawing the whole form page
- Some control plug-in classes are made available:
* AJAX based form submission (without reloading the whole page)
* Auto-complete text inputs
* Select a location on a map using Google Maps API
* Calendar date input
* CAPTCHA test to prevent automated access by robots
* Linked select input to switch select options when the value of another input changes. An unlimited number of selected can be linked in cascade. Additional plug-in subclasses are provided to retrive option groups from a MySQL database or many other SQL databases using the Metabase PEAR::MDB2 PHP database abstraction layer APIs
* Manage animations that apply visual effects to the page form elements, like: fade-in, fade-out, show, hide, update content, etc..
- XHTML compliant output.
- Load submitted form field values even with register_globals option Off and strip slashes when magic_quotes_gpc option is On.
- Keyboard navigation support:
* Attachment of labels with activation keys to each form field.
* Tab navigation order index.
- Built-in server side (PHP based) and client side (Javascript 1.0 or better) field validation for:
* E-mail address
* Credit card numbers (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, Carte Blanche, enRoute, JCB, any of these or even determined by a select field).
* Regular expressions.
* Field not empty.
* Field equal to another (useful for password confirmation fields).
* Field different from another (useful for reminder fields that must not be equal to the actual password).
* As set (for check boxes, radio buttons and select multiple fields).
* As integer number (with range limitation).
* As floating point number (with range limitation).
* Programmer defined client and server validation functions.
- Highlight invalid fields rendering them distinct CSS styles
- Security attack prevention by optionally discarding invalid values passed in fields that could not be edited by users but may be spoofed by attackers.
- Option to define a value that, when used in a field, it is accepted without performing any of the validations defined for the field.
- Ability to stop the user from submiting a form more than once inadvertdly.
- Sub form validation (validate only smaller set of field depending on the submit button that was used).
- Composition and generation of the form HTML output with fields displayed as fully accessible or in read-only mode.
- Generation of Javascript functions (useful to set to the page ONLOAD event):
* Set the input focus to a field.
* Select the text of a field.
* Set the input focus and select the text of a field.
* Enable and disable input fields
- Automatic capitalization of the text of a field:
* Upper case.
* Lower case.
* Word initials
- Replacement of text field expressions to perform adjustments like trimming whitespace or auto-complete values based on rules defined by regular expressions
- Compose forms with templates using plain HTML files with embedded PHP code or using the Smarty template engine with a supplied pre-filter plugin
- Etc.
This class can generate images for use in CAPTCHA based validation tests (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers from Humans Apart). It is an improved version of the Captcha Numbers class originally written by Hadar Porat.
This version can generate a random text string that includes letters and digits.
It can also display each of text characters in different vertical positions randomly defined.
The colors of the grid and the text characters alternate to make it more difficult for robots to guess what is the text written in the image.
New features as of 2006 March 7th:
- random pixel display (by default set to 10% of the pixels of the entire
image); if random selected pixel has background color then a random color is
selected for the random pixel, otherwise a close match of the letter's or
grid's color is generated
- removed grid display by default (it's better readable without the grid,
but it can be added, my suggestion is to add more dots instead of the grid)
- random grid color support
- added random display angle support
- added random font support
- added random font size support
- added random font color support
Improvements:
- replaced rand function calls with mt_rand (mt_rand suppose to be better
and faster, if I remember correctly)
Next to the class PHP file create a folder fonts and place TTF in order to use the random fonts feature.
This class can be used to display images for CAPTCHA validation.
It can display an image with a random text that the user needs to read and enter in a form to authorize the access to resources to real human users. The text is rendered over a given obfuscation image. The length, font and size of the text is configurable.
The validation text is stored in a session variable for posterior validation.
The validation image format can be either GIF, JPEG or PNG.
This package can be used to perform human user validation using CAPTCHA images (Completely Automated Public Turing to tell Computers from Humans Apart).
It generates a sequence of animated images, assembled with in a GIF animation file, to make it more difficult to break by robots because the validation text does not completely appear in each of the animation images.
This class can generate images for use in CAPTCHA based validation tests (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers from Humans Apart).
It can generate an image with a random sequence of numbers over a grid of lines. The numbers and the grid are rendered in configurable colors. The numbers are rendered using a given TrueType font.
The image can be generated in either GIF, JPEG or PNG formats. The default format is PNG.
This class can be used to perform CAPTCHA validation, display text letters using ASCII art fonts.
It generates a CAPTCHA validation text string with random letters and then renders that text as an ASCII art string with multiple lines that represent the validation text with some distortion and noise characters.
The random validation text and the rendered text are returned as strings.
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