SCode plugin and CAPTCHA provider?

By FuturePundit on Jul 5, 2009 at 9:19 AM 2 Vote 0 Votes

I just upgraded from MT 3.2 to MT 4.261. I have the SCode plugin which I had installed with MT 3.2. It still shows up under plugins as enabled. Separately I got to the Comment settings area and I see under "Comment Display Options" the entry "CAPTCHA Provider" which is set to "none".

So here's the question: does SCode bypass the CAPTCHA Provider setting? Do all my forms that produce the CAPTCHA graphics pattern just not use the new version but still work okay?

I can't get comments to work at all since upgrading.

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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FuturePundit | July 5, 2009 3:19 PM | Reply

Answer: I have 2 problems.

1) The old Comments Listing Template is just not showing up. Though I still see the Comments Preview Template and I got that one to work for single post preview mode.

2) Gotta replace the SCode MTSecurityCode and MTSecurityImage tags with new tags added to MT4.
I think SCode (or at least an earlier version of it) does not work with MT 4.261. Instead I copied this code snippet below over the SCode snippet in the Comments Preview Template:

Then I went into Preferences | Comment | CAPTCHA Provider and set it to "MovableType default". That seems to make CAPTCHA work again for single post previews at least.
FuturePundit | July 5, 2009 3:24 PM | Reply
Okay, the XML gets eaten up. See here:
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/designer/mt4s-comment-templates-for-use.html

This is what you use to replace the SCode MTSecurityCode and MTSecurityImage:
```
<MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTCaptchaFields">

<MTIfCommentsAccepted>

<MTIfRegistrationAllowed>

<MTElse><$MTCaptchaFields$>

</MTIfRegistrationAllowed>

</MTIfCommentsAccepted>

<div id="comments-open-captcha">

</div>

</MTIfNonEmpty>
```