Add phpcaptcha in contact form 7 with validation

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Add phpcaptcha in contact form 7 with validation in WordPress which you can download from below w3schools website.

http://www.w3schools.in/php-script/captcha/

1. Extract phptextcaptcha in your theme directory of wordpress.

your directory will be like.

yourthemepath/phpcaptcha/css
yourthemepath/phpcaptcha/font
yourthemepath/phpcaptcha/captcha.php
yourthemepath/phpcaptcha/phptextClass.php

where captcha.php path will be generating an image and put the value of it session $_SESSION[‘captcha_code’];

2. In contact form you need to put

[text* captcha_text]

you can further style this with css.

3. Now last part is validating this with contact form 7.

put the code in function.php

if (!session_id())
session_start();
add_filter( ‘wpcf7_validate_text*’, ‘custom_captcha_text_validation_filter’, 20, 2 );

function custom_captcha_text_validation_filter( $result, $tag ) {
if ( ‘captcha_text’ == $tag->name ) {
//var_dump($_SESSION);

if ( $_SESSION[‘captcha_code’] != $_POST[‘captcha_text’] ) {
$result->invalidate( $tag, “Invalid captcha code!” );
}

}
return $result;
}