Re: Swear word substitution

http://www.evilwalrus.com/viewcode/560.php "Cj" <newsgroupcontact@seseaz.org.uk> wrote in message news:20021114155439.41215.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I'm posting this again as i got a mail saying > > Trend SMEX Content Filter has detected sensitive content. > > Place = php-general@lists.php.net; ; > Sender = CJ > Subject = [PHP] Swear word substitution > Delivery Time = November 14, 2002 (Thursday) 23:40:23 > Policy = Dirty Words > Action on this mail = Delete message > > Warning message from administrator: > Sender, Content filter has detected a sensitive e-mail. > > There was not a swear word in my original post but there was a word that > contained a swear word but is itself not a swear word. The word is Scu > > n > > thorpe > > and I need a script to allow wordslike this but remove proper swearwords. > > I've got a mysql based website with a php scripted fromt end. I want to > parse the output the php scripts get from the database before "printing it > as html" for swear words and substitute these for more acceptable words (on > a word for word basis). I need to do it this way as I want to keep the > original posts in their "rude" form in case I need evidence for misuse of > the site. I need to be able to check for words separated by non alpha > characters in case people get clever and write obscenities separated w i t h > s p a c e s or with o_t_h_e_r characters or even new > l > i > n > e > s > or wordsruntogetherintoonelongword. > I also want a list of permitted words that contain swearwords such as > "Sc%%thorpe" which won't get changed. > > Has anybody done this? I have a feeling that there is a 1 line regular > expression out there that will do this nicely. > > Any help appreciated > > Feeling rusty at coding... > > CJ > >