Posted on Friday, July 09th (5039 days ago)

Here at the studio, we focus on using the wonderful open source CodeIgniter framework to power things behind the scenes on most of the sites we build.

I had to quickly whip up a new callback function for a contact form that was being spammed.

function no_spam($str)
{
    if (strpos($str, '[url=') === FALSE)
    {
        return TRUE; 
    }
    else
    {
        $this->form_validation->set_message('no_spam', 'The %s field no like spam!');
        return FALSE;
    }
}

A pretty easy way to deter comment form spam from entering your inbox.

Feel free to use this function in any CodeIgniter controller that has a <textarea> form fill-in field.

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About Joseph R. B. Taylor

Joseph R. B. Taylor is a humble designer/developer who makes stuff for screens of all shapes and sizes. He is currently the lead UI/UX Architect at MScience, LLC, where he works to create simple experiences on top of large rich datasets for their customers and clients.