Help with banning email or domain!

[mrrodger]

I'm sure this is simple but can someone please help? I  would like to add a script to my existing php form processing page that would ban a specific IP and/or email address. I keep getting spam from the same email address about 50 times a day. Please help!! Thank you!

[trq]

This should fix it for all of 30 seconds.

[code=php:0]
if ($email == "foo@bar.com") {
  echo "You are not allowed to post";
} else {
  // handle post.
}
[/code]

[mrrodger]

Thank you- that worked! Do you know how to do the same thing but with IP addresses?

[trq]

Carefull though... ip's are unreliable.

[code=php:0]
if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == "192.168.12.89") {
  echo "You are not allowed to post";
} else {
  // handle post.
}

[gm04030276]

im just browsing here and wondered if you could use a flatfile database or a mysql database to hold and retrive the information for checking the email/ip against??

[ShogunWarrior]

You could have them in a text file like so:
[code]
203.188.122.186
222.172.213.221
123.123.154.224
[/code]

Then at the start of your script:
[code]
<?php
$ip = @ $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$ips = file('ips.txt');
if( in_array($ip,$ips) ){die('You are not allowed to post.');}
[/code]