Company Name Check Filter?

[marcopolo]

I would like to filter out or block customers from entering "None" or "n/a" for the company name field when they create an account or new address.

Is there a topic on this anywhere with some examples of code to accomplish this? I could not find anything discussions on this and know figured others have had or having the same issue and just dealing with it.

[stevesh]

I suppose you could write something, but how are you going to determine what isn't allowed? If someone doesn't want to give you their company name (which you can make required) and are prevented from using n/a or none, I'm thinking they'll just enter boolaboola or noyb or ...

[marcopolo]

I do not require them to enter a company and wished they just left it blank, however 90% of the people if they do not have a company leave it blank as they are supposed to the other 10% enter either enter "none" or "N/A" why I do not know, so blocking those two words or giving them some type of error saying please leave it blank when those words are detected would ((SHOULD)) resolve the issue.

[stevesh]

Why don't you just remove the company field in admin?

[Steven300]

.. or easily adapt the PO Box Ban mod.

[marcopolo]

I need the company because I ship to companies and the shipping modules looks at the company field to determine which rates to display.

The PO Box Ban will not work because like I said I ship to PO Box address as long as they USE the Postal service.

[Steven300]

Like I said, adapt it. Look at the code and change it to filter the company field instead of the street address.

[marcopolo]

easier said then done...I do not write code very well

[Steven300]

That's okay. Try this (untested) code:

Find the following file:
includes/modules/create_account.php

Copy the file into your override system, so you have this:
includes/modules/your_template/create_account.php

In your override file, find this block of code (around line 113):

if (ACCOUNT_COMPANY == 'true') {
    if ((int)ENTRY_COMPANY_MIN_LENGTH > 0 && strlen($company) < ENTRY_COMPANY_MIN_LENGTH) {
      $error = true;
      $messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_COMPANY_ERROR);
    }
  } 

Directly underneath it, add this:

// BEGIN Company Filter 1/1
if (preg_match('/\bnone\b/i', $company)) {
    $error = true;
    $messageStack->add('create_account', COMPANY_FILTER_ERROR);
    } else if (preg_match('/\bn\/a\b/i', $company)) {
    $error = true;
    $messageStack->add('create_account', COMPANY_FILTER_ERROR);
    }
// END Company Filter 1/1 

Then in includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/
Create a file called company_filter_defines.php

In that file, add this:

<?php
define('COMPANY_FILTER_ERROR', 'Please leave the company field blank if you are not a company.');
?>

[marcopolo]

Works perfect, thank you VERY much!

This is not a big deal but while I was testing it, it basically resets the form if the error occurs.

In the java script file:
/includes/modules/pages/create_account/jscript_form_check.php

If an additional check is added there then it will simply create a popup with the error allowing the person to fix it and leave the form intact.

Below is an example line that checks the company length, if not to much trouble can you modify this?

<?php if (ACCOUNT_COMPANY == 'true' && (int)ENTRY_COMPANY_MIN_LENGTH != 0) echo '  check_input("company", ' . ENTRY_COMPANY_MIN_LENGTH . ', "' . ENTRY_COMPANY_ERROR . '");' . "\n"; ?>