Submit URL Restriction

[drvosjeca]

Hi...

Im building squidoo directory and i would like to restrict submissions from NON-Squidoo pages...

So basicly i would like users to only be able to submit their lenses, so url they are submitting must have ht*p://squidoo.com/their-lens

Can anyone help me with this please?

thanks

[carlo75]

Hi drvosjeca,
you can simply block URL from admin panel, section Blocked List, select domain and add all the domain that you want disable.

[drvosjeca]

ufff.... you are killing me

I wana disable all domains, only squidoo should be available to submit


Any way to do this?

[carlo75]

Sorry, I've read too quickly...

So if you want to prevent all *.* site, except from SQUIDOO, I think you have to draft something in hotaru core, in submit.php or libs/SubmitFunctions.php inside Submit Plugin.
I'll do some tries...

[PuckRobin]

In plugins/submit/templates/submit1.php change the following line:

<form name='submit_1' action='<?php echo BASEURL; ?>index.php?page=submit1' method='post'>

to:

<form name='submit_1' action='<?php echo BASEURL; ?>index.php?page=submit1' method='post' onsubmit='return checkurl()'>

Add following lines to the end of submit1.php:

<script type="text/javascript">
function checkurl() {
var url = $("#submit_orig_url").val();
if ( url.indexOf("squidoo.com") == -1){ 
alert("You can only submit squidoo.com links. Please try again.");
return false;
}
else { return true;}
}
</script> 

User cannot proceed further until he submits a squidoo.com link.

[carlo75]

Got it:
you can reverse engine the Blocked List function, adding http://www.squidoo.com like a domain to block. Suddenly you need to edit SubmitFunctions at line ~695 with this:

/**
* Check if url or domain is on the blocked list
*
* @param string $url
* @return bool - true if blocked
*/
public function checkBlocked($h, $url)
{
// Is url blocked?
if ($h->isBlocked('url', $url)) {
return false;
}

// Is domain blocked?
$domain = get_domain($url); // returns the domain including http
if ($h->isBlocked('url', $domain)) {
return false;
}

// Is domain extension blocked?
$host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST); // returns www.google.com
$ext = substr(strrchr($host, '.'), 1);
if ($h->isBlocked('url', '.' . $ext)) { // dot added here
return false;
}

return true; // not blocked
}

Not so much elegant but it'll works

[carlo75]

In plugins/submit/templates/submit1.php change the following line:

<form name='submit_1' action='<?php echo BASEURL; ?>index.php?page=submit1' method='post'>

to:

<form name='submit_1' action='<?php echo BASEURL; ?>index.php?page=submit1' method='post' onsubmit='return checkurl()'>

Add following lines to the end of submit1.php:

<script type="text/javascript">
function checkurl() {
var url = $("#submit_orig_url").val();
if ( url.indexOf("squidoo.com") == -1){ 
alert("You can only submit squidoo.com links. Please try again.");
return false;
}
else { return true;}
}
</script> 

User cannot proceed further until he submits a squidoo.com link.

Definitely a better solution!

But with JAVA disabled... it's ok... probably all hotaru system doesn't work ;-)

[drvosjeca]

Thank you guys...

I have used solution @PuckRobin posted and it solved my problem.

Well... if users have java disabled, then site wont be working at all, as you said carlo

[PuckRobin]

Does Hotaru even work with javascript disabled? I am not sure about that, but if it works and somebody cares about those people who can still live on the Internet with javascript disabled, he has the liberty to modify submit.php and SubmitFunctions.php I think But me, no thanks

[carlo75]

Sure... mine was an ironic supposition