Blocking a email type

[EchoFool]

Hey,

 

I have a script which allows people to purchase - but i wish to block an email "bobmail.info" so i put this:

 

  <?php      if (eregi('@bobmail.info', $bcc_address)) {
            $bcc_address = ',';
            $subject = 'Bobmail email was blocked! Voucher unclaimed!';
            }
?>

 

So say $bbc_address was hello@bobmail.info... for some reason it doesn't work with blocking it - can any one see why ?

[slurpee]

ereg and eregi are depricated in php 5.3 and will be removed in 6.0, so I highly suggest against using those functions.  Instead, just use preg_match():

 

if(preg_match("/@bobmail\.info/i",$bcc_address)) {
  $bcc_address = ',';
  $subject = 'Bobmail email was blocked! Voucher unclaimed!';
}

[GalaxyTramp]

You might want to convert the string to lower case or this will not work if user enters email address in upper case 

 

$bcc_address = strtolower('HELLO@BOBEMAIL.info');//Convert string to lowercase


if(preg_match("/@bobmail\.info/i",$bcc_address)) 
        {
            $bcc_address = ',';
            $subject = 'Bobmail email was blocked! Voucher unclaimed!';
        }

[slurpee]

You might want to convert the string to lower case or this will not work if user enters email address in upper case 

 

That's what the 'i' is for after the delimiter in the preg match.

[EchoFool]

Ok i worked out the issue - the email is in any array -

 

So say the array hasa list of

 

hello@gmail.com

hello@hotmail.com

hello@bobmail.info

 

how can i replace just the bobmail info with some other email ? (note the email could be in any position of the array and obviously won't always be "hello" )

[slurpee]

This will totally clean the array from all emails that match "@bobmail.info"

 

$emailArray = array("hello@gmail.com","hello@hotmail.com","hello@bobmail.info");
$newArray = array_filter($emailArray, "removeBobmail");

function removeBobmail($e) {
  return !preg_match("/@bobmail\.info/i",$e);
}

[EchoFool]

So what does the new array become ? Just:

 

<?php
$emailArray = array("hello@gmail.com","hello@hotmail.com") ?
?>

 

Because what i was thinking was "replace" bobmail with my admin email so i get notified - but str_replace doesn't work on arrays does it ?

[slurpee]

So what does the new array become ? Just:

 

<?php
$emailArray = array("hello@gmail.com","hello@hotmail.com") ?
?>

 

Because what i was thinking was "replace" bobmail with my admin email so i get notified - but str_replace doesn't work on arrays does it ?

 

Why can't you just go through the array with a for loop?

 

foreach($emailArray as $i => $e) {
  if(preg_match("/@bobmail\.info/i",$e)) {
    $emailArray[$i] = "your@email.com";
  }
}

[EchoFool]

Because the mail function i just put the array in the list like

<?php
mail($EmailArray, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

So to go through the array means executing mail function many times instead of just once.

[slurpee]

Because the mail function i just put the array in the list like

<?php
mail($EmailArray, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

So to go through the array means executing mail function many times instead of just once.

 

But what about executing the for loop before you call the mail function?

[Andy-H]

Why not just use stristr.

[EchoFool]

Now you've lost =/

[slurpee]

Now you've lost =/

 

How about you try and explain your problem better so you can get a better answer? There are about 4 solutions that will all probably work with your code if you just mess around with it a little.  We can't give you accurate help since you're being so vague with your questions.

 

So, either explain exactly what you need a little better than you already have, or how about posting a bit more code so we can try it out for ourselves?

 

[EchoFool]

Where was i being vague =/

 

Basically i have an array of emails and any email which is a "@bobmail.info" i am trying to replace it with a default email (my email) so the email will go to me rather than the bobmail email

[mattal999]

foreach($emailArray as $i => $e) {
  if(preg_match("/@bobmail\.info/i",$e)) {
    $emailArray[$i] = "your@email.com"; // Set to your admin email.
  }
}
mail($emailArray, $subject, $message, $headers);

This is all you had to do with the code from this thread.

[EchoFool]

Oh so thats what you meant - i thought i had to execture mail function in every loop ! D'oh ! Thanks guys !

[Andy-H]

foreach($emailArray as $i => $e) {
  $subject  = 'Subject';
  $message  = 'blah blah'."\r\n";
  $headers  = 'Your headers';
  if( stristr($e, '@bobmail.info') !== false ) {
    $emailArray[$i] = "your@email.com"; // Set to your admin email.
    $subject  = 'New Subject';
    $message  = 'New message'."\r\n";
  }
mail($emailArray, $subject, $message, $headers);
}