I was bored with all the spam comments, so I decided to install reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is a simple and very effective captcha that is easy to install on almost any platform including self-made sites, blogs and forums. It help very much to protect a site from spam-bots, and you don't need to create any captcha by yourself. All you need to do is to insert the reCAPTCHA code in two places, and it will download everything and will check if the data entered is correct. In addition, this captcha can generate sound that will be very helpful for blind people.

How can you do it for youself. You put reCaptcha's Javascript-code into your form, insert your public key, which was given to your when you registered, in two places. Then upload a reCAPTCHA library to your host (for example, for php this library). And paste the data checking code with the private key in your PHP-script.

How it works. When the page is loaded, reCAPTCHA automatically downloads an image with two words on it that user must enter into the field below. The data then sent to the PHP-script and the checking code detects whether the entered data is correct or not. After that you can whether display an error message or send the user somewhere.

It's here http://talk.melomanica.com/. Please, review it and let me know what you think about it. As you can see this is not an ordinary forum, this is forums in different themes and the most important goal of our entire site will be to create an information source where people could find all related materials to the subject they are looking for (forum's topics in this case).

Let's imagine, for example, that someone is looking for "yellow cars". He finds an auto forum, click on similar topics, but he can't find what he's looking for. He can't find "yellow cars". In our case, this user will see all related topics from lots of other forums and it is much more possible that he will find what he wants.

There will also be an encyclopedia on melomanica and related articles from the encyclopedia will be shown to people too. And the more projects we will create the much will be the possibility that people will find what they need. Isn't this idea very good? I think it's great.

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Are there people who still think PHP isn't sucks? PHP can't be used at all on big sites like Wikipedia or Facebook. It's just a homepage preprocessor.

I've just requested a payoneer card from Elance using my paid freelance account. That card has quite good rates:

• Card activation (Outside U.S.) - $10
• Monthly account maintenance - $1 (2+ transactions per month)
• ATM Withdrawal (Outside U.S.) - $2.15

I don't quite sure if I'll be able to attach that card to another payoneer partners accounts, but it will be nice to use the card even with Elance only.

Elance also doesn't allow to attach non-elance card to a freelancer's account. You can only request a card with Elance logo and withdraw money to it.

However, you're able to attach your new elance card to an existent payoneer account and use several cards from one account. Just ask payoneer's support to do that.

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