Blocking free email accounts with php or Contact Form 7

I did some investigation and came up with this:

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I added if(strpos(strtolower… but I get the error”Parse error: syntax error, unexpected” when using this code.

Does anyone happen to know why? Or what I am missing?

So sorry for not using pastebin. I actually meant to and then spaced. Here is the link to the code I’ve been working with: https://pastebin.com/4Nnpcggu.

Again, I added the code if(strpos(strtolower… but I get the error “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected” when using this code.

Hey, I did manage to get something working in theory, but it didn’t work in practice. However, before I had time to get it actually working my boss decided against the mod.

I can get you exactly what I coded, but it won’t be until Monday.

Basically, I just had an array of free email domains and created a function that split the email apart to test the domain against the array values.

I don’t remember where I added the call to this new function, but I think it was right about where you’ve been messing around.

As for your error, you have the syntax wrong. Try this.
if( strpos(strtolower( $_POST[$name] ),'[email protected]') !== false )

Thanks for the reply. I’d be interested to see the code you came up with so if you could pass it along, I’d appreciate it. I tried the syntax you provided, but the email end up getting sent as oppose to displaying a message that the email is not valid.

For some reason my original method of using a separate function to test the domain wasn’t working for some reason. The function just would not work.

So, I ended up just rewriting the original validation to split the email and check.

https://pastebin.com/bZLimTYF

Just replace the old function with my new one and it should work fine. At the top you will notice an array of domains, add/remove as many as you like.
Then, right after the test for email type it checks that the domain is there, and finally at the bottom it tests whether the user domain is in the array of free domains.

James,
Thank you so very very much for your solution. It totally worked.

I did come across using “explode” and even attempted it, but it was rather advanced for my php skills and I can see from your code where I was going wrong.

For those who need this, please note that this is for the Contact Form 7 plugin and you’ll need to modify the text.php file under the Validation filter comment (line 113) in the modules folder.

Thanks, again!

This is great. I’d like to simplify this a bit to detect certain e-mail addresses (not domains). How would I modify the code here to create an array of e-mail addresses and rather than split the e-mail into a domain and a user, just check the entire thing?

Thank you!