Hello,
I would like to know if there's a hack to prevent people registering the same e-mail address twice, or the exact same name.
I think the form protect us from spam but what about the people that register more than once using same name, same e-mail? How can I stop this from happening?
Miguel
The mailing list part of simpleContact checks the database and does not allow the same email address to be added twice.
The contact form *does* allow submissions with the same email address more than once. This is because its original purpose is to receive messages, not to operate as a membership system.
I will look into devising a hack to allow this in the new year.
This hack should serve your purpose. It checks the inbox for an email address that matches the email address being submitted. If it is a match, no data is recorded in the database and the user is redirected to another page. You could put a message on the redirect page informing the user that they are already registered.
Open sc_admin/include/contact.php
Add the following code after line 145:
$email = $posted["email"];
$query = "SELECT id FROM $table_form_post WHERE email='$email' LIMIT 1";
$msg_result = mysql_query($query) or die(sql_err_handler($query, mysql_error()));
if (mysql_numrows($msg_result) == 0) {
Add the following code after line 301:
} else {
header("Location: contact_failed.html");
exit;
}
Alex, first of all thank you for the hack!
The thing is that I implemented the hack and it doesn't register twice the same e-mail (good!), but the redirect doesn't work, it sends me to the Thank you page, instead to the new page I've created contact_failed.html
What could be wrong?
It sounds like you may have pasted the second code block into the wrong line.
Ensure that the code reads like this (where the last } is immediately before where the "SHOW FORM" section of the script begins):
// Redirect
header("Location: $form_thankyou");
exit;
} else {
header("Location: contact_failed.html");
exit;
}
}
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