Re: bad word filter

That is a very good idea. I had never even thought of doing it that way. Perhaps I will talk with them about it. Tyler Longren Captain Jack Communications tyler@captainjack.com www.captainjack.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Hallstrom" <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: "Tyler Longren" <tyler@captainjack.com> Cc: "Ryan Fischer" <ryan@gigabee.com>; "php-general" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:30 PM Subject: Re: bad word filter > I missed the first part of this, but I'm assuming it's for a message board > of some sort? Why not implement a "big brother" system where other > posters can indicate that the post contains inappropriate content. If > enough people do this, then just kill the post, and record the author. If > enough of an author's posts get killed, then ban the author. > > That would be a lot more useful, a lot more fun to do, and you'd get more > $$ from your clients :) > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Tyler Longren wrote: > > > I waste my time because the clients pay me to. ;-) > > They get what they want. I told them there would very easy ways around the > > filters. but they insisted..... > > > > Thanks! > > Tyler Longren > > Captain Jack Communications > > tyler@captainjack.com > > www.captainjack.com > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ryan Fischer" <ryan@gigabee.com> > > To: "Tyler Longren" <tyler@captainjack.com>; "php-general" > > <php-general@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:27 PM > > Subject: Re: bad word filter > > > > > > > You wrote: > > > > I've been reading the "Profanity Filter" thread in the list > > > > archives > > > but > > > > haven't found anything real helpful. Here's my code so far, this of > > > course > > > > won't work. > > > > <? > > > > function filterWords($string, &$result) { > > > > $badwords="shit, fuck, ass, bitch"; > > > > $word=explode(", ", $badwords); > > > > for ($i=0; $i<count($word); $i++) { > > > > $replace = str_replace("$word[$i]", "****", $string); > > > > } > > > > } > > > > $string = "Ass monkey"; > > > > filterWords("$string", $result); > > > > print "$result"; > > > > ?> > > > > > > > > How can I scan for the $badwords in $string and replace $badwords with > > > ****? > > > > > > Why waste your time? People will find a way around the filters anyway, > > > if they really want to use the words you're censoring. Just a point to > > > be made. > > > > > > Anyway, here's what I would do: > > > > > > function filterWords($str){ > > > $badwords = array("shit", "fuck", "ass", > > > "bitch"); > > > for($i=0; $i<count($badwords); $i++){ > > > $str = $eregi_replace("$badwords[$i]", "*****", $str); > > > } > > > return $str; > > > } > > > $str = filterWords("Ass monkey"); > > > print $str; // Prints "***** monkey" > > > > > > If you want to get really fancy, you can replace the "*****" with some > > > function calculating just how many asterisks you need to censor out the > > > current word for its length. HTH. :) > > > > > > -- > > > -Ryan :: ICQ - 595003 :: GigaBoard - > > > http://www.gigaboard.net/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >