Stop Form from sending email

Hi,

We are using chronoforms 3.2 on a Joomla 1.5 site. We have a captcha, but still getting lots of spam.

What I would like to do is check the Message textarea field, in the "On Submit - before sending email" field, and if there is a URL in the message not send the email to the site owner or the autoreply to the submitter. How do I stop the emails from being sent if I determine there is 'bad' data in the message field?

The textarea message field is defined like so:

<textarea class="cf_inputbox required" rows="6" id="message" title="Please send us your message" cols="30" name="message"></textarea>

I believe I would get the textarea field like so:

$message = JRequest::getString('message', '', 'post');

I can then check the message and determine if I want to stop the emails from being sent. I just don't know how to stop the email processing from continuing.

Thank you.

Hi ljk,

The code to conditionally disable an email is on Chapter 12 page 340/341 of the ChronoForms book assuming that you can find your copy.

Alternatively you could use Severside validation with a regexp to look for URL and check and block the mails at that stage.

Bob

Hi,

Thank you. Got that to work.

Hi Bob,

Now I would like to do the same thing for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3 sites using V4 of chronoforms.

In V3 and Joomla 1.5 I used this code:

			$MyFormEmails =& CFEMails::getInstance($MyForm->formrow->id);
			$MyFormEmails->setEmailData('1', 'enabled', false);

What would be the equivalent for V4?

I have an On Submit event that has a custom code event, which checks things. This is where I would want to have the code to stop the emails, but the email events are after the custom code event. I have attached the contact form if that helps.

Thanks for any help on this.

Hi ljk,

The simplest solution is to get my Email [GH] action which has a 'Conditional' option which you can use to send an email (or not) depending on a form value.

Bob