(yabbse) Ban a whole domain from registering.

[Fizzy]

I'm pulling my hair out with this one on YaBBSE

I need to prevent regsitartion and more importantly the registration email from being sent to AOL email aco******s.

In the banned user facility I have tried

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*@aol.com
%aol%
%@aol.com

Nothing stops the regsitration process.

In register.php I found

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$request = mysql_query ("SELECT value FROM {$db_prefix}banned
WHERE (type='email' && value='$member[email]')") or database_error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
if (mysql_num_rows($request) > 0)
fatal_error("$txt[678]$txt[430]!");

which I am guess deals with the check of the details in the banned table. I don't know how to make the query look for a part of a domain instead of a whole email address.
Does anyone have any simple solutions to my problem ?

Thanks in advance.

[Grudge]

In Register2() in register.php just add something like this:

if (strpos($_POST['email'], 'aol.com') !== false)
fatal_error('You are from aol so you're not welcome here');

Note: $_POST['email'] may be something else but you should be able to work out what it is (i.e it may be $_POST['emailAddress']) - long time since I used Yabbse

[Fizzy]

Hi Grudge,

Thanks for that, I'll give it a try.
At the moment I have a scrappy addition to register.php

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// anti aol device
if (substr_count($member[email], "@aol") >= 1)           
    fatal_error("$txt[678]$txt[430]!");


I'll give your suggestion a try

I can't wait for SMF release as this problem has been resolved perfectly in the admin panel