How to filter offensive content?

[senthil]

Hi:

I want to restrict the users of my site from posting offensive messages. Is there anyway to do this? The only thing that I can think of is, store a list of possible foul words and when a message is posted, check if any of those words are present. But I would like to know is there any better way of doin it.

Thank you
Senthil

[Duey]

well one way is to use str_replace

<?
$text = $_POST['text'];
$text = str_replace("badword", "ba***rd", $text);
?>

another way this is if you want to be easilly able to add bad words is store them in a mysql database

<?
//mysql stuff
$query = "select * from badwords";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)){
$text = str_replace("$row->badword", "$row->replaced", $text); 
}
?>

hope it helps.

[Weedpacket]

A couple more threads on this topic with more suggestions can be found by searching the forums on the keyword censor.