Marian Briones wrote:

>We've all seen this - in fact Yahoo Groups uses it to join its groups
>now.  You are registering for something and are presented with a
>graphic with a combo of letters and numbers, sometimes at weird angles
>and diff. fonts and you have to type in exactly what you see and it
>has to match.
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>Kicking this out with a random call to MySQL is how I'm doing it; but
>probably doing it badly with the only method which has come clear to
>me in verifying it -
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>I have a database table with these fields:  ID, value, and filename. 
>The ID is the autoincrement primary key to identify the image, the
>value is the actual letters and numbers (string) which appears on the
>image.  So when the form is submitted, I have a hidden field (which is
>what scares me) that carries that particular images ID with it to
>query up the value.  Are you with me?  
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>I don't like having the hidden field because it isn't hidden at all if
>the user views the source, of course, and I'm wondering what more
>secure way I could do this verification without this huge security
>snafu.  Someone will probably tell me and I'll bang my head against my
>desk saying duh, so I'll go get my helmet...
>
>Thanks...
>
>Marian
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Take a look here:
http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/user-authentication/image-verification.php

Jim


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