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The Security Image Addon gives you a great deal of flexibility with respect to how you want the image itself to be displayed on your site.
You now have a choice of security images that can be used on your website. You can use the built in security image feature that is configured on this page of the admin tool. You can also choose to use the security image feature through the recaptcha.com website. To start using their image you will need to of course make the choice in this admin tool here. You will also then need to sign up for the service through the recaptcha.com website. Once signed up you will need did to fill in the fields necessary within this admin tool with the api key and private key provided by their website.
This setting allows you to display the security image at the bottom of the Registration Page.
This setting allows you to display the security image on the software's Login Page. Note that if your software edition displays a login box on the front page, that is actually a separate html form than the Login Page. You can apply the security image to your own forms by using the appropriate tag (shown in 'NOTE' below).
This setting allows you to display the security image on the Contact Seller and Tell-a-Friend forms accessible from the Listing Display Page.
<tip c n> The security image can also be used within custom login forms that you may have applied to your site. If so, then simply insert the following tag within the <form> tags of your form:
(!addon.geo_addons.security_image.secure_image!)
</tip>
This setting allows you to define the height (in pixels) of the security image box.
This setting allows you to define the width (in pixels) of the security image box.
This setting allows you to define the number of characters that will be displayed in the security image box.
This setting allows you to define the size of the characters that appear in the security image box.
This setting allows you to apply a blur to the characters. Please note that it may only be used if you are running php 5 or later on your server.
This setting allows you to apply distortion (skewing) of the security image.
This setting allows you to apply different colors to the characters, grid, lines, and noise each time the security image is refreshed.
This setting allows you to apply a set of grid lines to the security image.
This setting allows you to apply a set of lines to the security image.
This setting allows you to apply pixel points to the background of the security image.
This setting allows you to
This setting allows you to
If the random grid setting above is in use, you can specify the number of grid lines that will display in the image.
If the random lines setting above is in use, you can specify the number of lines that will display in the image.
If the random noise setting above is in use, you can specify the amount of noise that will display in the image.
If the distort security image setting above is in use, you can specify the degree of distortion that will be applied to the contents of the security image.