Exclusive Escapes Holiday Homes

Just finished a new website …

Exclusive Escapes Holiday Homes is the freshest holiday rental company in the South West of Australia.

Selecting only the best holiday homes in Eagle Bay, Dunsborough and Yallingup all chosen for their unique location, facilities and ‘feel’.

Freedom - Eagle Bay Holiday Home

Freedom on Eagle Bay is truly one of the exclusive residences in the South West.

Home on the Bay - Eagle Bay

This exclusive holiday home is located within 150 metres of the white sandy beaches and calm, clear waters of Eagle Bay, kid and picnic friendly Meelup just minutes away, and world renowned surf beaches in each direction.

Bayview - Dunsborough Holiday Home

(photograph by Ange Wall Photography)

A beautifully appointed “award winning”  holiday home nestled in peaceful Old Dunsborough, only a 100 metre walk to the beach.

Take a look and maybe come and stay …

Stop website enquiry form SPAM : Round 2

This is just a small update to my previous articleStop website enquiry form SPAM.

While my original hidden URL technique worked very well for a while – the spammers have managed to get around it. Whether they can now ‘read’ the CSS to see that it is hidden and therefore ignore it, I don’t know.

Regardless, we’re getting SPAM through that enquiry form again.

So round 2:

I decide to add a clause to the PHP that disallows links in the textarea – my thinking is that if they can’t post links, then it’s not worth them SPAMming you.

Although it took me a while to work out the code, it’s actually really simple …
www (and thanks to kkeith29 of the Daniweb forums) and http: are the strings I’ve decided to search for as it’s unlikely to come up in a normal question.
In english, the code says:
if the letters www or http: appear together in the message box, don’t email anyone and show them this message “Please don’t post links in the questions box – it looks like SPAM and your message hasn’t been sent”.


elseif (preg_match("/(http:\/\/|www)/", $msg)) {
echo "Please don't post links in the questions box - it looks like SPAM and your message hasn't been sent";


Insert this preg_match comment after …

if (!empty($url)) {
mail( “$email” , “[You're tagged as SPAM]“, … See Stop website enquiry form SPAM for the full code.

Again, I hope this one helps you out and keeps your inbox a bit cleaner.