ReCaptcha 2.0 With AJAX

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Ok, this was pretty silly.

I have done a couple of things wrong:

  • In the PHP file, all the strings had single quotes on them, and that caused problems.
  • Throughout the testing, I added multiple printings of things in the PHP file, thus the if (status == "ok") was never working. I did get the emails but did not get any conformation that I did and now I see why.
  • When I wanted to check what the PHP file was omitting, I simply went to it’s address in the URL and always got an error. Even when the mails were sent. Now I understand that that is not the correct way of checking the logs.

Thanks to @Samurai who helped my figure out things.

Final PHP code:

<?php
    // assemble the message from the POST fields

    // getting the captcha
    $captcha = "";
    if (isset($_POST["g-recaptcha-response"]))
        $captcha = $_POST["g-recaptcha-response"];

    if (!$captcha)
        echo "not ok";
    // handling the captcha and checking if it's ok
    $secret = "MY_SECRET";
    $response = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret=".$secret."&response=".$captcha."&remoteip=".$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]), true);

    // if the captcha is cleared with google, send the mail and echo ok.
    if ($response["success"] != false) {
        // send the actual mail
        @mail($email_to, $subject, $finalMsg);

        // the echo goes back to the ajax, so the user can know if everything is ok
        echo "ok";
    } else {
        echo "not ok";
    }
?>

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