Laravel IR Captcha

Laravel IR Captcha (Image Rotation Captcha) is a customizable image rotation CAPTCHA package for Laravel 11 and 12.

Features

• Interactive, intuitive, and more user-friendly than classic text-based CAPTCHAs.
• Customizable UI and flexible configuration.
• No third-party services required. Everything are handled locally.

Preview

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/32460513-4fe3-4bfa-bcf7-79c5e9b7f5e1

Installation

Make sure the PHP gd extension is installed and enabled.

Install with composer using following command:

composer require klangch/laravel-ir-captcha

Configuration

Publish configuration, view, localization files by using following command:

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Klangch\LaravelIRCaptcha\LaravelIRCaptchaServiceProvider"

• config/ir-captcha.php
• lang/vendor/ir-captcha/en/messages.php
• resoures/views/vendor/ir-captcha/irCaptcha.blade.php

Usage

Show captcha in iframe

<iframe src="{{ ir_captcha()->iframeUrl() }}" height="290" width="300"></iframe>

Listen for iframe's post message

window.addEventListener("message", (event) => {
    if (event.data && event.data.type === "irCaptcha" && event.data.status === "success") {
        // Get captcha token and set to input field
        document.querySelector("input[name='captcha_token']").value = event.data.captchaToken;

        // Continue form submission...
    }
});

URL for iframe

// Get captcha URL with helper
ir_captcha()->iframeUrl();

// Get captcha URL with parent origin and dark theme
ir_captcha()->iframeUrl('https://[your_parent_origin].com', true);

// Or append parent origin and dark theme param manually
$url = ir_captcha()->iframeUrl() . '?parent_origin=https://[your_parent_origin].com&theme=dark';

or set dark theme dynamically in Laravel Blade + JS

// Get captcha URL with helper
let captchaUrl = "{{ ir_captcha()->iframeUrl() }}";

// Or without helper
let captchaUrl = "https://[your_captcha_domain].com/ir-captcha";

// Then append parent origin
captchaUrl += "?parent_origin=" + window.location.origin;

// Append theme
if (themeMode === "dark") {
    captchaUrl += "&theme=dark";
}

document.getElementById("captchaIframe").src = captchaUrl;

Validate captcha token

if (ir_captcha()->validateCaptchaToken($token) === true) {
    // Validation success
}

or by using Laravel validation rule:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator;
use Klangch\LaravelIRCaptcha\Rules\IRCaptcha;

$rules = [
    'captcha_token' => ['required', new IRCaptcha],
];

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), $rules);
$validator->validate();

Clear expired captcha files

Clear expired captcha files by using following command:

$ php artisan ir-captcha:clear-expired

You can set this command in cron job to regularly clear expired files.

⚠️ Note For Frontend Framework On Different Domains ⚠️

When using this package with frontend hosted on different domain (such as a Next.js app embedding captcha verification page via an iframe), there are a few important things to keep in mind:

⚠️ CSRF Exclusion

CSRF protection may block requests due to cross-origin restrictions. To allow verification requests from the iframe to bypass CSRF validation, you can explicitly exclude the verification endpoint:

// bootstrap/app.php
->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
    // ...

    $middleware->validateCsrfTokens(except: [
        'ir-captcha-verify',
    ]);
});

⚠️ Set Captcha Locale

You can set the captcha's language by passing a locale code as a query string parameter, such as _lang. Then, use middleware to set the application's locale accordingly.

For example, in your HTML:

<iframe src="https://[your_captcha_domain].com/ir-captcha?parent_origin=https://[your_parent_origin].com&_lang=cn"></iframe>

In your middleware, retrieve the _lang value and set the application locale:

public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next): Response
{
    $locale = $request->input('_lang', 'en');
    App::setLocale($locale);
    return $next($request);
}

For a complete working example, see the Code Example repository.

Code Example

https://github.com/kleong153/laravel-ir-captcha-example