Restrict registrations to one domain

[Andreas]

This hack restricts new registratiosn to users who have eMail-Adresses from one specific domain.
This can be useful if you are running a corporate/internal forum.

In register.php FIND

// check for missing fields


ABOVE that ADD

// Check for vaild eMail domain
if (!preg_match('/@mydomain\.com$/', $_POST['email'])) {
eval('$errors[30] = "' . fetch_phrase('bademail', PHRASETYPEID_ERROR) . '";');
}


Note: mydomain.com must be replaced with the restricted domain of course ;)

Should work with all vB 3 versions.

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nice job

[teach1st]

Thanks so much! It works perfectly.

[fms]

Thanks for the great hack, Kirby ... I'm sure it will be very useful :)

At an educational institution, student and staff e-mails are often located on a different machine so that:

a staff e-mail address is staff@school.edu
a student e-mail address is student@student.school.edu

How would one alter your hack to permit both staff and student e-mail addresses to register?

[Freezerator]

Nice hack :)

[CharlesHe]

In order to ensure security, the change email should also be restricted. Are there any other loopholes?

[Andreas]

Well, preventing Users from changing their eMail after registration was never a planned Feature for this.
So it is working as designed :)

[Jim H]

Thanks for this-- we're running a 3.5.4 system. Do you think it will still work?

Also, like fms, we have two domains we need to allow. Is it possible that wild card symbols would work, like www.pdq*.* for two domains (www.pdqstudents.edu and www.pdqparents.org).

This is kind of a "huge deal" to us, because we want a facebook.com type of limited registration access.

Thanks again!

[DjTaz]

Actually, this would be a handy addition for my site , though i want to restrict them from using my sites e-mail address.

I give all new members an e-mail address, and i want to avoid them using username@mydomain.com as their e-mail address and then logging into the mail on the site and getting the authrosiation email.

Just removing the ! should do that for me - thanks for this.

[Jim H]

Okay, I made the change to our 3.5.4 system, and it does not seem to work. New users (with non-approved email domains) simply get approved with no bademail message. Any ideas for making it work with 3.5.4?

I also heard there was a hack to change the banned email list from a blacklist to a whitelist. This would work even better for us, since we have two domains we want open. Anyone recall the hack for this?

Thanks again!

Jim H

[Jim H]

I believe I just found the answer for changing the banned email list to a whitelist:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107386&highlight=email

On my 3.5.4 system, it is working so far with test users. Thanks!

[Guest200608]

This doesn't seem to be working for my vBulletin 3.6.5. Is it outdated? Thanks!

[MISTER2]

I can't get this to work:
This is what I typed to restrict to @thermofisher.com email addreses:

// Check for vaild eMail domain
if (!preg_match('/@thermofisher.com$/', $_POST['email'])) {
eval('$errors[30] = "' . fetch_phrase('bademail', PHRASETYPEID_ERROR) . '";');
}