Overview:

Jerkblocker performs the following checks:

• Verifies account registration data against a set of rules. If a new violates these rules, the registration is blocked.
• Checks the body of contact us emails against a set of rules. If the email violates these rules, it is not sent.

Some of the rules that Jerkblocker enforces may not make sense for your store; if this is the case, I will fine-tune them for you. Jerkblocker is optimized for US based businesses which serve customers primarily in the United States.

Settings:

The settings for Jerkblocker are all contained in includes/classes/observers/class.jerkblocker.php. Search this file for the phrase Jerk Block and you will see the following checks for account registrations:

1. // Jerk Block: block specific company names
   You can enter a list of company names here. Example:

       $bad_company_list = array('google');
       

2. // Jerk Block: block specific email domains
   You can enter a list of email domains here. Example:

       $bad_domain_list = array("yandex.com","mail.ru", "qq.com");
       

3. // Jerk Block: block specific country based emails
   You can enter a list of countries here. Email domains which end with these country codes will be blocked. For example, makemoneyfast@business.cn would be blocked if you added "cn" to the list. Example:

       $bad_domain_country_list = array("ru","cn");
       

4. // Jerk Block: multibyte characters not allowed
   Use this if you don't want registrations in multibyte character sets.
   Note: Blocking multibyte may not be desirable if you have customers registering with multibyte names (using characters like umlaut, accent, etc.), such as "Jørgen" or "Längert".

5. // Jerk Block: Cyrillic not allowed
   Use this if you don't want registrations from Russia.

You will also see these checks for Contact Us emails

1. // Jerk Block: bad words
   Use this to list any bad word that indicates the email is spam. Both the subject and the body of the email are checked.

Installation Instructions:

1. Back up everything! Try this in a test environment prior to installing it on a live shop.
2. Copy the contents of the unzipped folder to the root directory of your shop.
3. Modify includes/classes/observers/class.jerkblocker.php as described above to achieve your desired blocking results.
4. Optional: Modify includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/jerkblocker.php to change the error message. For example, you could invite customers to call your office to have an account created.

Major Versions

• 1.0 09/12/2019 - First Release

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