Re: detecting spam keywords with stripos

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Merlin Morgenstern <merlin_x@fastmail.fm>wrote: > > > Per Jessen wrote: > >> Merlin Morgenstern wrote: >> >> Hi there, >>> >>> I am matching text against an array of keywords to detect spam. >>> Unfortunatelly there are some false positives due to the fact that >>> stripos also finds the keyword inside a word. >>> E.G. "Bewerbung" -> "Werbung" >>> >>> First thought: use strpos, but this does not help in all cases >>> Second thought: split text into words and use in_array, but this does >>> not find things like "zu Hause" or "flexible/Arbeit" >>> >> >> First thought - use Spamassassin. >> Second thought - use regexes. >> >> /Per >> >> > > sorry this is a different scneario. I do need to to it this way in my case. > It is about spam inside user postings. > > Any ideas? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Regex is your best bet, but nothing will be fool proof. Case in point (shit, shiite, sh*t, s**t, merde, Scheiße! <a>s</a> and so on) -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat