Keep Users from Adding Bad Words

[jobemjobem]

hi guys.

just wanted to remind anyone that didnt know that i submitted a badword detection engine to flashkit some time ago:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Appli...42/index.shtml

you can type in hundreds of words to a "wordbank" text field. then when someone presses submit, you can call this function and it will detect whether it should be passed or not. you have the option of replace the badword with a word of choice.

also, with the highscore files i created for download at Ultimate Arcade ( http://www.ultimatearcade.com )it has this functionality already built in.

the truth is that if you dont put in detection, people will take advantage of it.

[taxxii]

cool code, jobem

how would you suggest that i handle special characters? would i enter the text urlencoded in the 'wordbank' and then urlencode to a coupla spots for 'my_name?'

-toyin

[jobemjobem]

hi

to tell you the truth, with the advent of flash 5 i would just write the thing over. with flash 5 you can just use string.split() to create an array and search through it in like 3 or 4 lines of code. the method i put forth in that flash 4 version converts the characters to ascii, checks to make sure it is 1 of the 26 characters, forces it to lowercase, checks against the words in the wordbank, and then replaces if necessary.

so it will not look for special characters, you can try url encoding and see if that works....but it probably wont since that uses special characters itself (%'s and stuff).

i will post the flash 5 code for it if i write it.