Ok this is the second time I have heard someone say to pass the string
in a hidden form field.

DO NOT DO IT. A spider can download the html and read that string and
pass that as the field.

Burns, John D wrote:

> It shouldn't be hard.  You don't necessarily need to create the images
> on the fly.  Just create a bunch of them once.  Then associate the file
> name with the correct answer in the DB.  Each time you display a file to
> the user, generate another unique id mapping the particular display to
> that particular user with a record from the other table that has the
> filename and correct answer.  Display the image to the person and hide
> the unique id (in session or hidden form).  Then when submitted, check
> that session to find out which image was passed and compare their
> response with the correct string.  Remove the record from the DB so they
> can't submit multiple times with the same info. Just my thoughts, there
> may be an easier way.
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