Restrict registrations to one type of domain

[josnoco]

Hello all,

I have a forum (v3.7.2) directed at college and university professionals. I'm trying to restrict registration to .edu domains only. More specifically staff members (not students) at college and university domains (which are all .edu here in the US). Help please!

I saw this, but I'm not sure if it will allow all .edu type domains or if it is specific to only one .edu domain (ie: LSU.edu) https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=74619

If this is possible how do I grant manual/special access to other domians once I close off everything but .edu's

Thanks!

[cheat-master30]

You could try editing out the my domain bit and adding .edu as the extension, but is there any reason you're using a version 3.0 modification? Because it may not even work as well with the current version...

[josnoco]

On the link I posted to that example the poster said "Should work with all vB 3 versions" Doesn't that include 3.7.2???

Really I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks!

[Opserty]

There were major changes in 3.5 so that will most likely no longer work.

[josnoco]

Anyone have a hack to pull this off? Still looking for help. Thanks!

[josnoco]

Does anyone know how to create a White List for a specific type of e-mail domain? I'm looking to have an inclusive list of users from .edu domains.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....38&postcount=2

[josnoco]

That might work. I'll take a closer look at it. The only other option I can come up with is to enter all the TLD's that I don't want to the banned user area. To me a whitelist seems to be an easier approach. Any other ideas are welcome. Thanks!

[Marco van Herwaarden]

With that small code edit, you are turning the blacklist (banned list) into a whitelist (allowed list).

[josnoco]

Yes! The only potential problem with that is actualy banning a specific .edu address. The whitelist would allow all .edu. addresses form the gTLD and the ban (blacklist) feature would be gone with the edit/change, right? So how would I block a known .edu from a user who is causing problems?

The only other options I came up with are:
1. Use the banned user feature and list TLD’s I don’t want to allow registrations from.
2. I could try to adopt the regex feature in the username function and apply it to e-mail addresses.
3. Or I could try to find a hack for the register.php file that wil allow me to qualify .edu addresses.

Any additional thoughts on what I should do? Thanks!