Regarding the possible editing mistake that you may have made, my gut is telling me that instead of typing
<br /> you may have typed
<br/> without the necessary space between
r and
/. This would be an error that could cause your forum to stop working.
Unfortunately, this forum doesn't allow us to make corrections or updates to our posts, so
I'm not able to more correctly describe in this post what might help to make things more clear.
Edited: Edited to update a post address here in this forum that has better information.
As such, please make a careful note of the following code so that you can duplicate it exactly as it should be written:
'casewarning' => 'Please type exactly what text appears in the image.<br />The characters must be typed in the same order,<br />and they are case-sensitive.',
Change to:
'casewarning' => 'Please type exactly what text appears in the image,<br />without the first two and last two characters.<br />The characters must be typed in the same order,<br />and they are case-sensitive.',
By the way, subsequent to the editing that I did with this anti-spam hack, I decided I wanted to add bold type to
without the first two and last two characters. I did this so people could see this important instruction better.
If you want bold to show up, then the following text is what you'll want to use:
'casewarning' => 'Please type exactly what text appears in the image,<br /><strong>without the first two and last two characters.</strong><br />The characters must be typed in the same order,<br />and they are case-sensitive.',
The result of the code below will be as follows on the registration page:
Your Verification Code is:Please type exactly what text appears in the image,
without the first two and last two characters.The characters must be typed in the same order,
and they are case-sensitive.
Good luck.
Edited: Edited to add an update code with an explanation.