reCAPTCHA Form Fields not working?

[Wizzums]

I have the reCAPTCHA between my form tags, yet the form fields never
make it through. I have setup a print_r to dump the contents of the
$_POST array, and it does, but no captcha fields exist in it. Here's
the site in question:
http://www.watcheslikenew.com/sendtofriend.php?id=1273 .. after
hitting submit, you must view the source and review line 150. You
will see the variables being passed through $_POST. When I set my
configuration to display PHP errors, it tells me that
"recaptcha_challenge_field" and "recaptcha_response_field" are not
valid indexes for $_POST. Any ideas?

Here's a snippit of my code:

<? include ("inc/constants.php") ?>
<? include ("inc/header.php") ?>
<? require_once('recaptchalib.php'); // for captcha ?>
<? $publickey = "..."; // for captcha ?>
<p class="heading">SEND THIS PAGE TO A FRIEND</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
var RecaptchaOptions = { theme : 'white' };
</script>
<?
if ($process == 1) {
print "<!-- <pre>";
print_r($_POST);
print $recaptcha_challenge_field;
print "</pre> -->";
$error = "";

$privatekey = "...";
$resp = recaptcha_check_answer ($privatekey,
$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],
$_POST["recaptcha_challenge_field"],
$_POST["recaptcha_response_field"]);

if (!$resp->is_valid) {
$error = $resp->error;
$id = $_POST['PID'];
} else {
$subject = "$name wants you to see this item at WatchesLikeNew.com";
$mailcontent = "Hello,<br>\nI found this watch at WatchesLikeNew.com
and thought you might find it of interest.<br>\n<br>\n";
$mailcontent = $mailcontent."Link: <a href=\"http://
www.watcheslikenew.com/detail.php?id=".$PID."\">http://www.watcheslikenew.com/detail.php?id=".$PID."</a>";
$toaddress = $emailto;
$fromaddress = $email;
mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, "From: $name <$fromaddress>
\nReply-To: $name <$fromaddress>\nContent-type: text/html");

echo "<p>Thank you. An email has been sent to your friend.<br><br><a
href=\"detail.php?id=$PID\">Click here to return to that watch</a>.</
p>";
$sent = true;
}
}

if (!isset($sent)) {
$sql="SELECT * FROM T1Brands,T2Watches WHERE T1BrandsID = T2BrandsFK
AND T2WatchesID = $id";
$result=mysql_query($sql,$db);

$num = mysql_num_rows($result);

if ($num > 0) {
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
?>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="center">
<form method="post" action="sendtofriend.php">
<input type="hidden" name="process" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="PID" value="<?=$id?>">
<tr>
<td class="blue"><b>Inventory #:</b>&nbsp;</td>
<td><?=$row["T2Sku"]?></td>
<td rowspan="5" align="right" valign="top">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"
bgcolor="#6666CC">
<tr>
<td><a href="detail.php?id=<?=$id?>"><img src="/images/p/<?=$row
["T2Image1"]?>" width="82" height="122" border="0"></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="blue"><b>Brand:</b></td>
<td><?=$row["T1BrandsName"]?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="blue"><b>Model:</b></td>
<td><?=$row["T2Model"]?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="blue"><b>Status:</b></td>
<td><?=$row["T2Status"]?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="blue"><b>Price:</b></td>
<td>$<?=$row["T2Price"]?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><br><br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Friend's Email:</b></td>
<td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="emailto" size="30"
class="input200" value="<? echo (isset($_POST['emailto'])?$_POST
['emailto']:""); ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Your Name:</b></td>
<td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="name" size="30"
class="input200" value="<? echo (isset($_POST['name'])?$_POST
['name']:""); ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Your Email:</b></td>
<td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="email" size="30"
class="input200" value="<? echo (isset($_POST['email'])?$_POST
['email']:""); ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center"><? echo recaptcha_get_html
($publickey, $error); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" align="right"><input type="submit" name="submit"
value="Submit" class="button"></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
<? } else { echo "Sorry, that product no longer exists."; }
} ?>
<? include ("inc/footer.php") ?>

[Justin]

On Sep 24, 5:42 pm, Wizzums <wizz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the reCAPTCHA between my form tags, yet the form fields never
> make it through.  I have setup a print_r to dump the contents of the
> $_POST array, and it does, but no captcha fields exist in it.  Here's

> the site in question:http://www.watcheslikenew.com/sendtofriend.php?id=1273.. after

> hitting submit, you must view the source and review line 150.  You
> will see the variables being passed through $_POST.  When I set my
> configuration to display PHP errors, it tells me that
> "recaptcha_challenge_field" and "recaptcha_response_field" are not
> valid indexes for $_POST.  Any ideas?

I am having basically the same problem, but with perl. The reCAPTCHA
box shows up, but any entry is allowed through. I have tried to
output the form fields to see if they ever get populated, and they
don't seem to be. I am probably missing something trivial, but I
don't see it yet. Here is a code snippit:
use CGI;
use CGI qw(:standard *table *TR *th *td *ul *ol);
use Captcha::reCAPTCHA;

my $q = CGI->new();
my $c = Captcha::reCAPTCHA->new();

my $error = undef;
my $captcha_html = $c->get_html( $pubkey, $error );

print $q->header();


print $q->start_html( -title=>$page_title,
-style=>{'src'=>$page->stylesheet}
);
print $page->start_body();

print $q->start_table( {-border=>'0',
-cellspacing=>'10',
-cellpadding=>'5',
-width=>'90%',
-align=>'CENTER'} );
print $q->start_form();

print $q->Tr( {-align=>'CENTER', -nowrap=>'nowrap'},
$q->td( {-align=>'CENTER', -valign=>'CENTER', -
colspan=>'2'},
"<h1>Suggestions? Comments? Please let us
know.</h1>" )
);
# bunch of print $q->Tr statements)
print $q->Tr( {-align=>'CENTER',
-valign=>'CENTER',
-nowrap=>'nowrap'},
# -class=>'searchbody'},
$q->td( {-align=>'RIGHT', -valign=>'CENTER'},
"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" ),
$q->td( {-align=>'LEFT', -valign=>'CENTER'},
# here is where the recaptcha box is printed
$captcha_html)
);
print $q->end_form();
print $q->end_table();

print "recaptcha_response_field = ".$q->param
('recaptcha_response_field')."<br>";
print "recaptcha_challenge_field = ".$q->param
('recaptcha_challenge_field')."<br>";
print "email = ".$q->param("email")."<br>";

The email line is successfully printed out, but the recaptcha fields
are empty.

It seems like we have similar problems here.

[Justin]

On Sep 25, 4:09 pm, Justin <justin.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 24, 5:42 pm, Wizzums <wizz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have the reCAPTCHA between my form tags, yet the form fields never
> > make it through.  I have setup a print_r to dump the contents of the
> > $_POST array, and it does, but no captcha fields exist in it.  Here's
> > the site in question:http://www.watcheslikenew.com/sendtofriend.php?id=1273.. after
> > hitting submit, you must view the source and review line 150.  You
> > will see the variables being passed through $_POST.  When I set my
> > configuration to display PHP errors, it tells me that
> > "recaptcha_challenge_field" and "recaptcha_response_field" are not
> > valid indexes for $_POST.  Any ideas?
>
> I am having basically the same problem, but with perl.  The reCAPTCHA
> box shows up, but any entry is allowed through.  I have tried to
> output the form fields to see if they ever get populated, and they
> don't seem to be.  I am probably missing something trivial, but I
> don't see it yet.  Here is a code snippit:

Well, I seem to have solved my problem. In my case I was starting the
form after the table. Swapping these fixed my problem. I don't know
if this helps you out, but you might try swapping where the form and
table tags are started and ended.

Hope that helps you out too.

[Wizzums]

Wow, thank you!! I didn't even think of that. This isn't a site
originally developed by us and I didn't even notice the form fields
being embedded in the table.

Anyway, this fixed the issue. Thanks again.

[Charles Sweeney]

A quick blast through the W3C code validator:

http://validator.w3.org/

...would have shown the error with the form and table tags.

If you declare a doctype, the browser will work to it, so you must
too.

--
Charles Sweeney
http://FormToEmail.com
PHP mail script with reCAPTCHA