Finally found this solution:
function custom_textarea_validation_filter($result, $tag) {
$type = $tag[‘type’];
$name = $tag[‘name’];
//here textarea type name is ‘message’
if($name == ‘your-message’) {
$value = $_POST[$name];
if (preg_match(‘/\b(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]/i’, $value)){
$result->invalidate( $tag, “Avoid URLs & Links” );
}
}
return $result;
}
add_filter(‘wpcf7_validate_textarea’,’custom_textarea_validation_filter’, 10, 2);
add_filter(‘wpcf7_validate_textarea*’, ‘custom_textarea_validation_filter’, 10, 2);
Thought this was resolved but it is not. I am seeing this error when using this code:
[10-Aug-2020 18:04:32 UTC] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘?’ in /home/mywebsite/public_html/wp-content/themes/nikkon-child/functions.php on line 34
This is line 34:
if (preg_match(‘/\b(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]/i’, $value)){
$result->invalidate( $tag, “Avoid URLs & Links” );
Not sure what to do next as I deleted all the question marks and that didn’t work. Can anyone help me with this?
I found a solution that blocks both urls and email addresses from the textarea field in my contact 7 form and I copied the function to do the same for the your-name field.
function custom_textarea_validation_filter($result, $tag) {
$type = $tag['type'];
$name = $tag['name'];
if($name == 'your-message') {
$value = $_POST[$name];
$Match_all = "/\b(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]|[a-z0-9._-]+@[a-z0-9._-]{2,}\.[a-z]{2,8}/";
if(preg_match($Match_all,$value)){
$result->invalidate( $tag, "Please no urls or email addresses in your message !" );
}
}
return $result;
}
add_filter('wpcf7_validate_textarea','custom_textarea_validation_filter', 10, 2);
add_filter('wpcf7_validate_textarea*', 'custom_textarea_validation_filter', 10, 2);
function custom_text_validation_filter($result, $tag) {
$type = $tag['type'];
$name = $tag['name'];
if($name == 'your-name') {
$value = $_POST[$name];
$Match_all = "/\b(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]|[a-z0-9._-]+@[a-z0-9._-]{2,}\.[a-z]{2,8}/";
if(preg_match($Match_all,$value)){
$result->invalidate( $tag, "Please no urls or email addresses in your message !" );
}
}
return $result;
}
add_filter('wpcf7_validate_text','custom_text_validation_filter', 10, 2);
add_filter('wpcf7_validate_text*', 'custom_text_validation_filter', 10, 2);
I also tried to copy it one more time for the your-subject text field but got an internal server error so I removed it. Guess I have to stay with the above code for now unless someone has another solution.
I figured it out. Here is my final code that prevents urls and email addresses inside my three form fields:
// No Urls or email addresses allowed in textarea
function custom_textarea_validation_filter($result, $tag) {
$type = $tag['type'];
$name = $tag['name'];
if($name == 'your-message') {
$value = $_POST[$name];
$Match_all = "/\b(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]|[a-z0-9._-]+@[a-z0-9._-]{2,}\.[a-z]{2,8}/";
if(preg_match($Match_all,$value)){
$result->invalidate( $tag, "Please no urls or email addresses in your message !" );
}
}
return $result;
}
add_filter('wpcf7_validate_textarea','custom_textarea_validation_filter', 10, 2);
add_filter('wpcf7_validate_textarea*', 'custom_textarea_validation_filter', 10, 2);
// No Urls or email addresses allowed in your name or subject field
function custom_text_validation_filter($result, $tag) {
$type = $tag['type'];
$name = $tag['name'];
if($name == 'your-name' || 'your-subject') {
$value = $_POST[$name];
$Match_all = "/\b(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]|[a-z0-9._-]+@[a-z0-9._-]{2,}\.[a-z]{2,8}/";
if(preg_match($Match_all,$value)){
$result->invalidate( $tag, "Please no urls or email addresses allowed here!" );
}
}
return $result;
}
add_filter('wpcf7_validate_text','custom_text_validation_filter', 10, 2);
add_filter('wpcf7_validate_text*', 'custom_text_validation_filter', 10, 2);
If you have more text fields that need to be added just use the || to add them.
Probably a way to also include the textarea fields inside the if conditional but I am happy with this solution unless someone post a better one.
