captcha in coldfusion MX

hi

i have been using code create captcha image our forms. works on 1 of our hosting companies 1 of clients uses hosting company runs on coldfusion mx unable work on.  please assist me in letting me know or give me alternative option code.

 

the code follows

 

<cffunction name="makerandomstring" returntype="string" output="false">

     <cfset var chars = "23456789abcdefghjkmnpqrs">

     <cfset var length = randrange(4,7)>

    <cfset var result = "">

     <cfset var = "">

   <cfset var char = "">

 

      <cfscript>

      for(i=1; <= length; i++) {

          char = mid(chars, randrange(1, len(chars)),1);

          result&=char;

      }

      </cfscript>

      <cfreturn result

  </cffunction>

  <cfset showform = true>

  <cfparam name="form.name" default="">

  <cfparam name="form.comments" default="">

  <cfparam name="form.captcha" default="">

  <cfparam name="form.captchahash" default="">

    <cfif isdefined("form.send")>

      <cfset errors = "">

      <cfif not len(trim(form.name))>

          <cfset errors = errors & "you must include name.<br />">

      </cfif>

      <cfif not len(trim(form.comments))>

          <cfset errors = errors & "you must include comments.<br />">

     </cfif>

      <cfif hash(ucase(form.captcha)) neq form.captchahash>

          <cfset errors = errors & "you did not enter right text. spammer?<br />">

     </cfif>

      <cfif errors "">

                  <cfset showform = false>

      </cfif>

     </cfif>

  <cfif showform>

     <cfset captcha = makerandomstring()>

      <cfset captchahash = hash(captcha)>

      <cfoutput>

      <p>

      please fill form below.

      </p>

     <cfif isdefined("errors")>

      <p>

      <b>correct these errors:<br />#errors#</b>

      </p>

     </cfif>

      <form action="#cgi.script_name#" method="post" >

      <table>

          <tr>

              <td>name:</td>

              <td><input name="name" type="text" value="#form.name#"></td>

          </tr>

          <tr>

              <td>comments:</td>

              <td><textarea name="comments">#form.comments#</textarea></td>

          </tr>

          <tr>

              <td>enter text below:</td>

              <td><input type="text" name="captcha"></td>

          </tr>

          <tr>

              <td colspan="2">

              <cfimage action="captcha" width="300" height="75"

text="#captcha#">

              <input type="hidden" name="captchahash" value="#captchahash#">

              </td>

          </tr>       

          <tr>

             <td> </td>

              <td><input type="submit" name="send" value="send comments"></td>

          </tr>

      </table>

      </form>

      </cfoutput>

  <cfelse>

      <cfoutput>

      <p>

      thank submitting information, #form.name#.

      </p>

      </cfoutput>

  </cfif>

 

it gives me following error message

 

 

the start tag must have matching end tag. explicit end tag can provided adding &lt;/cfscript&gt;. if body of tag empty can use shortcut &lt;cfscript .../&gt;.<p>the cfml compiler processing:<ul><li>a cfscript tag beginning on line 9, column 8.<li>a

cfscript tag beginning on line 9, column 8.</ul>   the error occurred in

e:\webusers\www.hvld.co.uk\captcha2.cfm: line 9

 

thanks

 

 

 

hi there.

 

might sound obvious cfreturn needs closing

 

steve

 

http://www.codemonkeysteve.com

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