combine these 2

[jasondavis]

if (preg_match('/r[^a-z]*a[^a-z]*t[^a-z]*e/i', $str)) {
        $spam5 = 1;
    } else {
        $spam5 = 0;	
	}
    return $spam5;
} 

if (preg_match('/v[^a-z]*o[^a-z]*t[^a-z]*e/i', $str)) {
        $spam5 = 1;
    } else {
        $spam5 = 0;	
	}
    return $spam5;
} 

I need to combine these to into 1?

[igorlopez]

How do you want the combination to look?

You have two different conditions which either are evaluating to TRUE or FALSE.
If you want to combine them you need make up the truth table for the combined script or maybe i am missing something?

[laserlight]

It could be something like:

$spam5 = preg_match('/r[^a-z]*a[^a-z]*t[^a-z]*e/i', $str);
$spam5 |= preg_match('/v[^a-z]*o[^a-z]*t[^a-z]*e/i', $str);
return $spam5;

Note that the bitwise or is used.

[jasondavis]

I want to process all 3 of these

$string = preg_match('/v[^a-z]*o[^a-z]*t[^a-z]*e/i', $string);
$string = preg_match('/r[^a-z]*a[^a-z]*t[^a-z]*e/i', $string);
$string = preg_match("/(rating|voting|r4r|v4v)/i", $string);

and have

$spam5 = 1; is a match is found and

$spam5 = 0; if no match found

[laserlight]

You can adapt my example since it pretty much does what you want.

[jasondavis]

laserlight wrote:

You can adapt my example since it pretty much does what you want.

I just don't get this part

return $spam5;

what will this return like true/false?

[laserlight]

It will return 1 or 0, since that was your original code's behaviour. If you actually want to return true or false, then change it to:

return $spam5 != 0;