The captcha form field type provides the use of a captcha plugin.

Example XML Field Definition:

<field name="captcha" 
       type="captcha" 
       validate="captcha"
       label="COM_CONTACT_CAPTCHA_LABEL"
       description="COM_CONTACT_CAPTCHA_DESC" >
</field>

Parameters

Mandatory Parameters

• type must be captcha.
• name is the unique name of the field.
• validate must be captcha.
• label (translatable) is the descriptive title of the field.

Optional Parameters

• description (translatable) is text that will be shown as a tool tip when the user moves the mouse over the drop-down box.
• namespace