Surely for this you only need the graphic "word", and a unique key which will identify it in a database?

Say your word in the graphic is "asdfgh". You create a sufficiently random string, "645jd834nf7gn36fg0jd53vbd8" as the key and set the entry in the databse for that key to "asdfgh".

When they submit the form, you can pass the key in your hidden field, and if $database{'645jd834nf7gn36fg0jd53vbd8'} == 'asdfgh' then they've guessed correctly. You move on to the next step and delete the entry in the db.

Or have I missed something?


($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to Re: Trouble with hidden data (need options) by Cody Pendant
in thread Trouble with hidden data (need options) by sulfericacid

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