Google reCAPTCHA Integration is a powerful tool that helps to protect your website or application from spam and abuse. It is easy to integrate and use, and it can be a great way to add an extra layer of security to your login page. In this blog post, we will show you how to integrate Google reCAPTCHA into a PHP login page and how to use it to prevent common security vulnerabilities.
Google reCAPTCHA is a free service offered by Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse. It uses advanced risk analysis techniques to tell humans and bots apart. To integrate reCAPTCHA into a website, you will need to sign up for a free API key on the reCAPTCHA website and then add the necessary code to your website’s HTML and JavaScript. The specific steps will depend on the type of reCAPTCHA you choose and the programming language and framework you are using for your website.
First, you need to sign up for a reCAPTCHA API key on the Google reCAPTCHA website. Once you have your API key, you can add the reCAPTCHA widget to your login form by including the following HTML code where you want the widget to appear:
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="your_site_key"></div>Make sure to replace “your_site_key” with the site key you obtained from the Google reCAPTCHA website.
In your PHP script that handles the login form submission, you will need to check the reCAPTCHA response. You can do this by sending a request to the Google reCAPTCHA API with your secret key and the reCAPTCHA response. If the API returns a successful response, you can proceed with checking the login credentials in the database. If the API returns an error, you can display an error message to the user.
Here is an example of a program that integrates Google reCAPTCHA into a PHP login page:
if(isset($_POST['g-recaptcha-response']) && !empty($_POST['g-recaptcha-response'])){
// your site secret key
$secret = 'your_secret_key';
// get verify response data
$verifyResponse = file_get_contents('https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret='.$secret.'&response='.$_POST['g-recaptcha-response']);
$responseData = json_decode($verifyResponse);
if($responseData->success) {
// get the form data
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
// check if the user exists in the database
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = :username");
$stmt->execute(['username' => $username]);
$user = $stmt->fetch();
if ($user) {
//verify the password
if (password_verify($password, $user['password'])) {
// login successful
$_SESSION['username'] = $username;
header('location: index.php');
} else {
// login failed
echo 'Invalid login';
}Here’s an example of a program that integrates Google reCAPTCHA into a PHP login page
<?php
session_start();
//connect to the database using PDO
$dsn = "mysql:host=host;dbname=database;charset=utf8mb4";
$options = [
PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false, // turn off emulation mode for "real" prepared statements
PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION, //turn on errors in the form of exceptions
PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC, //make the default fetch be an associative array
];
try {
$pdo = new PDO($dsn, "username", "password", $options);
} catch (Exception $e) {
error_log($e->getMessage());
exit('Something weird happened'); //something a user can understand
}
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// check the reCAPTCHA response
if(isset($_POST['g-recaptcha-response']) && !empty($_POST['g-recaptcha-response'])){
// your site secret key
$secret = 'your_secret_key';
// get verify response data
$verifyResponse = file_get_contents('https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret='.$secret.'&response='.$_POST['g-recaptcha-response']);
$responseData = json_decode($verifyResponse);
if($responseData->success) {
// get the form data
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
// check if the user exists in the database
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = :username");
$stmt->execute(['username' => $username]);
$user = $stmt->fetch();
if ($user) {
//verify the password
if (password_verify($password, $user['password'])) {
// login successful
$_SESSION['username'] = $username;
header('location: index.php');
} else {
// login failed
echo 'Invalid login';
}
} else {
// login failed
echo 'Invalid login';
}
} else {
// reCAPTCHA verification failed
echo 'reCAPTCHA verification failed, please try again.';
}
} else {
// reCAPTCHA response is empty
echo 'Please check the reCAPTCHA box.';
}
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