Re: Profanity Filter

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 Website4S@aol.com wrote: > Ok, > > I am now using the following code to check if there is any profanity in the > $FirstName however it just doesn`t work when testing, I am thinking it has > something to do with the way I`m loading the file, any better ways. > > $words=file('words.txt'); > $done=false; > while ((list($key, $val)=each($words)) and $done==false) > { > $done=strpos(strtolower($FirstName), $val); > }; > if (!$done==false) > { > echo "Oops! Bad name"; > } > else > { > echo"Okay, valid name."; > }; > It may have to do with the fact that you're using == in the while instead of === to also include type checking. If you're using PHP 3 you should say !strlen($done), otherwise the while clause will be true if the profane word starts at the beginning of the string (position 0). -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>