Re: Swear filter ideas

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 12:35 +0200, Tijnema wrote: > On 6/28/07, Richard Davey <rich@corephp.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just wanting to pick your collective brains on this one: > > > > How do you go about implementing a swear / bad-word filter in PHP? > > > > Reasons for needing one aside, I'm just wondering if you favour a > > regexp, a substr_count, or what? Do you like to *** out the bad words, > > or just error back to the user? (I guess that is application > > specific). > > > > There are always ways to circumvent them, but I'm still curious to > > know how you prefer to handle it. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Rich > > This is a really though thing to implement, let's say you don't want > to the word "ass" in your message coming from the user, and the > message contains this: > > Hi, in the archive I attached is a picture of my ass, the password is abcdef. > > The word ass is not wanted, so you *** it, but if you do that with a > regexp or such, then password would become p***word, or you want to > check only for real words (so spaces on both sides), but then somebody > would write !ass! or something like that. You got a problem with beasts of burden? :) Cheers, Rob -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'