Captcha is the best way to avoid spamming your SignUp, Comments, Email and many other things that takes user input. It is mainly used for Human Verification whether the user is human or any computer script. You may also like Using new Google reCAPTCHA using PHP.
PHP, jQuery and HTML Code
<?php
session_start();
define('DB_SERVER', "localhost");
define('DB_USER', "root");
define('DB_PASS', "");
define('DB_DATABASE', "whatsappdwld_db");
$con = mysqli_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASS, DB_DATABASE);
if (isset($_POST['submit_form'])) {
$user_captcha = $_POST['captcha_text'];
if ($user_captcha == $_SESSION['captcha']) {
$name = $_POST['username'];
$email = $_POST['useremail'];
$password = $_POST['userpass'];
$insertdata = " INSERT INTO user (name,email,password) VALUES( '$name','$email','$password' ) ";
mysqli_query($con,$insertdata);
}
else
{
echo "Wrong Captcha Please Try Again";
}
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function getcaptcha()
{
$.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: 'captcha.php',
success: function (response) {
$('#captcha').attr('src', 'captcha.php');
}
});
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="" >
<input type="text" name="username" >
<input type="text" name="useremail" >
<input type="password" name="userpass" >
<img src="captcha.php" width="150" height="100" id="captcha">
<input type="button" value="Reload Captcha" onclick="getcaptcha();" >
<input type="text" name="captcha_text">
<input type="submit" name="submit_form" value="SignUp">
</form>
</body>
</html>PHP Code (captcha.php)
<?php
session_start();
header('Content-type: image/png');
$chars = "012345678901234567abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
$captcha_text = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < 6; $i++) {
$captcha_text .= $chars[rand(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
}
$captcha_bg = @imagecreatefrompng("images/captcha.png");
imagettftext($captcha_bg, 30, 0, 0, 40, imagecolorallocate($captcha_bg, 0, 0, 0), 'larabiefont.ttf', $captcha_text);
$_SESSION['captcha'] = $captcha_text;
imagepng($captcha_bg, NULL, 0);
imagedestroy($captcha_bg);
?>
