[html-formfu] HTML::FormFu and ReCAPTCHA

[Carl Franks]

2008/8/26 Michele Beltrame <mb at cattlegrid.info>:
> Hi Carl!
>
>> That should work - but formfu won't be aware it's a form field - so it
>> would be a bit of a hack.
>> You could also use a Src element, if you don't want the DIV around the
>> reCAPTCHA markup.
>
> I managed to make this work but, as you said, it turned out to be a real
> dirty hack as the reCAPTCHA code creates two fields of which HTML::FormFu
> can't be aware.
>
>> If you've got the time/inclination - I would suggest asking the author
>> of Captcha::reCAPTCHA if he'd accept a patch to expose the
>> functionality, without having to use the html output.
>> If you were to patch Captcha::reCAPTCHA to do that - I'd be happy to
>> code up a formfu element that to interface with it.
>
> I guess this could be cone. However, checking at the Captcha::reCAPTCHA
> code, is seems quite short and simple - and the most part of it is
> devoted to creating the HTML, which we would need to rewrite anyway. So
> I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just implement a reCAPTCHA FormFu
> element from scratch.

I'll take a quick look, and see if I've got the time to do it.

Carl