imageCreateCaptcha

Create a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) image, a distorted text image that is human-readable, but not machine-readable, used in a challenge-response test for preventing spam.

imageCreateCaptcha (height, width, text [, difficulty, fonts, fontsize) → returns any

This function requires Adobe ColdFusion 10 and up.  Not supported on Lucee, etc.
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See Also:   cfimage

Argument Reference

height numeric
Required

Height in pixels of the image.

width numeric
Required

Width in pixels of the image.

text string
Required

Text string displayed in the CAPTCHA image. Use capital letters for better readability. Do not include spaces because users cannot detect them in the resulting CAPTCHA image..

difficulty string

Level of complexity of the CAPTCHA text. Specify one of the following levels of text distortion: low, medium, and high

font string

One or more valid fonts to use for the CAPTCHA text. Separate multiple fonts with commas. ColdFusion supports only the system fonts that the JDK can recognize. For example, TTF fonts in the Windows directory are supported on Windows.

fontsize numeric

Font size of the text in the CAPTCHA image. The value must be an integer.

Examples
Sample code invoking the imageCreateCaptcha function 

<h1>imageCreateCaptcha Method</h1> 
 <cfset funcimg1 = imageCreateCaptcha(35,400,'loner')>
 <cfimage action='writetoBrowser' source='#funcimg1#'>
 <cfset funcimg2 = imageCreateCaptcha(35,400,'loner','high')>
 <cfimage action='writetoBrowser' source='#funcimg2#'>
 <cfset funcimg3 = imageCreateCaptcha(35,400,'loner','high','serif,sansserif', '24')>
 <cfimage action='writetoBrowser' source='#funcimg3#'>

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