Find and Replace

[madddidley]

I have a simple guestbook and I am trying to add a little feature to it. I would like to block the toilet words that get submitted. You know those four letter words. If someone could help me that would be great.


www.madddidley.com

[crh3675]

Create an array of those words:



$badwords=Array("fun","crud","shout","bits");



Then parse your request:



$data=$_GET["data"];

foreach($badwords as $badword){
$data=eregi_replace($badword,"",$data);
}

print $data;

[madddidley]

Thanks a million

[jeant]

Is there a way to reject these entries altogether instead of just replacing the bad words? We are getting repeated entries in our guestbook suggesting sites inappropriate for our family oriented website. I would like to keep them out of our guestlog. jeant@angletoncofc.org

[Ben Rogers]

Maybe something like this?$bad = 0;
foreach ($badwords as $badword) {if (preg_match("/$badword/i", $str)) {$bad = 1;}}
if (!$bad) {
/* post entry */
} else {print "<p><strong>Clean up the language!</strong></p>";}

[dreamcatcher]

I know the feeling in having junk posted to your guestbook. Its a good idea to be able to approve entries. This does stop the rubbish getting to the guestbook, but unfortunately, doesn`t stop the amount of crap that gets posted.

You could use a security image when people post. This might work as it stops spam software in its tracks.

Check this one out:
http://www.rushtheweb.com/products.php?cmd=FormProtect

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

hey madddidley, you should watch your site http://madddidley.com with Mozilla firefox

[Paul Jr]

Originally posted by Ben R.
Maybe something like this?$bad = 0;
foreach ($badwords as $badword) {if (preg_match("/$badword/i", $str)) {$bad = 1;}}
if (!$bad) {
/* post entry */
} else {print "<p><strong>Clean up the language!</strong></p>";}
Since you're just checking for the existance of one string inside another, it would be less memory-intensive to use stristr() (http://www.php.net/stristr) (case-insensitive version of strstr() (http://www.php.net/strstr)), or even strpos() (http://www.php.net/strpos).

[madddidley]

I know. My site is down in the dumps when it comes to the mozilla. I tried to redo my style sheet and said funk that. Giving me too many headaches. So I am just going to create a style sheet for mozilla and switch it up accordingly.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

;)