How can I censor out a banned word in a topic title?

[d00dle]

Right now i'm working on message boards and I'm wondering how I can censor out banned words that I put in the database.

Say the banned word is "Example", I want to make that so it completly censors it so on the topic list it looks like "*******".

Anyone know how to do this?

I kinda think you can just enter something in the eregi_replace spot...

if ($messban) {
$sql="SELECT * FROM words WHERE wordid=$messban";
$result19=mysql_query($sql);
$myrow19=@mysql_fetch_array($result19);

$topictitle=eregi_replace("  "," ",$topictitle);

[AstroTeg]

pregi_replace() is a bit faster than eregi_replace(). Something to think about.

For this, I'm thinking you could get away with str_ireplace(). Its a lot easier to use and faster than pregi_replace(). You could just do: str_ireplace("Example", "******", $string); The only catch to maybe not using it is if "example" was part of another word and you didn't want "example" blanked out (which would be silly in this example).

[Kor_Ikron]

Yeah, that would be tricky if you wanted like "assume" but not "@$$" (you know what I'm saying.). I'd go with str_ireplace().

[AstroTeg]

That's actually where preg_replace() might come in handy. Is have it look for "ass" and then white space after it. If there's no white space, then don't swap it out - so "assume" would be safe.

[d00dle]

so i should use preg_replace()?

[Kor_Ikron]

Yeah like pregi_replace("ass ")