WackoWiki: Captcha And Session

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Captcha And Session


This issue has been fixed in R5.5[link1].


If you want use Captcha[link2], you must set these values in freecap.php if they differ from default values or your config settings,
so that Captcha can pass its values to the session. This is a workaround until a more general approach is found / implemented[link3].

# setting location freecap.php default value
1 $this->config['cookie_prefix']
 secondary config[link4]
 COOKIE_PREFIX
 _wacko
2 SESSION_HANDLER_ID
 constants.php
 SESSION_HANDLER_ID
 sid
3 SESSION_HANDLER_PATH
constants.php
 SESSION_HANDLER_PATH
null

  1. $this->config['cookie_prefix'] can be access via the Admin panel or phpMyAdmin and config table.
  2. -
  3. The session handler path can be determined with ini_get('session.save_path') or via phpinfo(); and session.save_path.
    1. You can also look up the value via Admin panel and System Informations.
    2. If you specify the SESSION_HANDLER_PATH then this must be done in in both files.
    3. If the path containing additional values like '3;600;/home/web-sessions' then add the entire string.
    4. In some cases the SESSION_HANDLER_PATH must be provided in any case to get it work.

Example

table prefix_config
config_name config_value
cookie_prefix wacko_

config/constants.php
define('SESSION_HANDLER_ID',			'sid');
define('SESSION_HANDLER_PATH',			null);	// if you are using specific path (instead of system default /tmp) for session variables storing, define it here



lib/captcha/freecap.php
define('COOKIE_PREFIX',            'wacko_');         // Part 1 of session_name - see init.php session function for details "  session_name($this->config['cookie_prefix'].SESSION_HANDLER_ID);  "
define('SESSION_HANDLER_ID',            'sid');       // Part 2 of session_name - see previous . Same setting as in config/constants.php
define('SESSION_HANDLER_PATH',            null);    // Where to find session files. Same setting as in config/constants.php


All three setting values must be equal in both files
  1. config table
  2. config/constants.php
  3. lib/captcha/freecap.php

and SESSION_HANDLER_PATH must match the value of your system. 


$catch_session_name = COOKIE_PREFIX.SESSION_HANDLER_ID;

if(isset($_GET[$catch_session_name]))
{
	session_name($catch_session_name);
	session_id($_GET[$catch_session_name]);

	// Save session information where specified or with PHP's default
	session_save_path(SESSION_HANDLER_PATH);

	session_start();	// we don't actually start a new session - we open the existing one by name & id and add our variables
}