JFBC & K2 registration & recaptcha enabled - is there a solution?

We haven't heard of this issue in quite some time and didn't know it was still a problem. I know when we used to hear about it, we'd recommend using the built-in Captcha system of Joomla. From my memory of it, K2 has a captcha field and you can select to use their own captcha or the one that comes with Joomla. When K2 initially launched ~2009, Joomla 1.5 didn't have it's own captcha plugin system available.

Joomla has had captcha built-in for about 9 years now (that's a guess, but close).

Is there a reason you can't or don't want to use the Joomla captcha system? If you try to set it up, does it work (even if you don't prefer to use it)?

Answers to those will help us understand the issue further and help figure out a good way forward.

Thanks,
Alex

I just had a look at the K2 user plugin to understand what's going on. It seems they changed things a little. They do have their own ReCaptcha keys and, if you enable ReCaptcha in their parameters, they will add that captcha to their own registration form and Joomla's built-in registration forms. For some annoying and breaking way, they don't just use the captcha system built-in to Joomla.. because duplicating things is always better, apparently.

Once ReCaptcha and the K2 User Profile system are enabled, they pass every registration through their own captcha implementation, which is why it's breaking.

With that said, it seems like there's a pretty straightforward work around with a line of code that I'd like you to test. Please edit the /components/com_jfbconnect/controllers/login.php file. Around line 109, you should see:Directly above that line, please add:Test that and let us know how it goes. If it works, we can investigate implementing it in the next release.

Thanks,
Alex