Submitting a form with CodeIgniter CAPTCHA
It is sometimes necessary to add a little more security to a form other than escaping and validating user input; sometimes you may wish to ensure that a human and not some script or bot is entering data and submitting your form.
A tried and tested way of doing this is CAPTCHA. There are alternatives to CAPTCHA; for example, a mathematic question (what's 10 + 7, for example) is fairly easy to construct in your application. A new method is getting your users to play a short game. Based on how they do, they are assessed as being either a human or a bot; areyouahuman.com is a good resource for this. But for now, we'll concentrate on CodeIgniter's CAPTCHA functionality to make a CAPTCHA protected form for ...
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