Excluding Links from a message

Hi

Hope that you can help; I run a website for our local Church and use Visforms for users to submit a 'Prayer Request'. to our Vicar.

It's a simple form, and works well, but some spammers have submitted a questionable link within the prayer - a link which has been blacklisted.

I know that answer to this will probably be 'No' but is there any way that that I can prevent users uploading links into a field? I have set the value to both Text Area and Text, but links are still included.

Any ideas would be much appreciated

Tschüss!

Bob

Hi Bob,

if the form is submitted by a real spammer you might be able to block at least some out by using the visforms plugin spambotcheck (which comes with the installation package). Go to the plugin manager. Select Type "Visforms" and enable the plguin "Visforms Spambotcheck". Then open the plugin in set the parameters Check IP and Check e-mail to yes (later one only if form has a field with name "email"). Enable "Stopforumspam.com, spambusted.com, DNS Sorbs.net and Dns SpamCop.net.

Then go to your form and enable the form parameter "Use plugin Spambotcheck" in the "Advanced" Tab.

If the questionable link is posted in a textarea and you use the tinymce Editor I think you could try to use the "Prohibited Elements" Parameter of the Editor. (You can configure the Editor in Plugin Manager. It's the "TinyMCE" plugin of Type Editor). Add "a" to the parameter Prohibited Elements. I don't know if this really works, but you could give it a try.

Kind Regards,
Aicha

Hi Aicha,

Thanks very mich for your help - really appreciated. I've done what you recommend - hope it stops the spammers.

Thanks once again

Kind Regards

Bob