Formit: how to filter/validate based on senders Name?

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Sylvaticus Reply #1, 5 years, 3 months ago

I have a contact form based on smtp/Gmail. But there is a spam-robot sending in the name Timothywaw that I want to be blocked as sender.

Is this possible?

I use a Gmail-account as sender/smtp host/adresse, so all emails goes through the folder Sendt in that account. But it's not possible to make filters to the Sendt folders, so I figure I have to set in the Modx Formit setup.

Data:
Modx Revo 2.7.0
Formit latest.

Code:

[[!FormIt?
        &hooks=`spam,email,redirect,formItAutoResponder`
        &emailTpl=`EpostmeldingTmpl`
        &emailTo=`[email protected]`
        &emailReplyToo=`[[+email]]`
        &emailSubject=`Melding fra kontaktskjemaet på verketyoga.no`
        &emailFromName=`[[+name]]`
        &redirectTo=`200`
        &store=`1`
        &clearFieldsOnSuccess=`1`
        &fiarTpl=`kontaktMelding-confirmation`
        &fiarFrom=`[email protected]`
        &fiarFromName=`[email protected]`
        &validate=`name:required,
          email:email:required,
          message:required:stripTags`
      ]]
      <form class="cmxform" id="contactForm" action="[[~[[*id]]]]" method="post">
        <input type="hidden" name="nospam:blank" value="[[+fi.nospam]]" />

I think, thererfor I am! But what I am, and why...?

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godzio Reply #2, 5 years, 3 months ago
You can use FormIt &preHooks:
```
[[!FormIt? &preHooks=`stopTheSpammers`]]
```
and stopTheSpammers snippet code:
```
$email = $hook->getValue('email'); // get email from a form that is actually sending
$allFormFields = $hook->getValues();  // get all fields from that form to an array
if (...) {
... // your filter code
$errorMsg = 'Got ya spammer!';
$hook->addError('user',$errorMsg);
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
```
return false stops the form and return true is continuing formit script.
https://docs.modx.com/extras/revo/formit/formit.hooks/#FormIt.Hooks-UsingpreHooks

personally i would recommend some captcha systems i.e. google recaptcha.
https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3