UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 Bug Reports Bad Words Filter is Not Functioning Properly

When a post is made to the board, the censorship function seems to be reading all spaces as bad words. In place of any space it puts [censored]. There are no extra spaces in the bad word file. Any ideas as to what the problem is?

It sounds like maybe it is unable to find that file. Do you have your php.ini set to auto-prepend=on?

This may very well be an issue with changing $config[path] to $config[phpurl] in the addpost.php script. I had the same behavior before I changed mine.

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Shalazar
www.charisma-carpenter.com

guess what... I had to change it back into $config[path]

Do you have a blank line or a line with a space on it in your bad words file? If you can put your cursor on a line below the last listed bad word, try using the delete-backspace key to delete up to the previous line. Who knows, it might help.

If you remove all the words from the file, this also happens. I took them out, and it did the same thing to me. I put in a random, nonsense word so something would be present, and the problem cleared up.

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Geoffrey J. Schaller ([email protected])
http://www.psi-13.com/

I just downloaded the 5.4.3 PHP version and this problem still exists in addpost.php.

Lines 127 and 152 are using the wrong variable.
They need to be changed to:
$config[path]

I could have sworn this was fixed in an earlier release.

I had a problem with bad words filtering too. Found out that the bad-wordsfile rows were not ended width \n.
Modified the file doeditfilter.php under admin like this

// ----------------------------------
// Need to get rid of any blank lines
$bodyparts = explode("\n",$body);
$bodysize = sizeof($bodyparts);

$body = "";
for ( $i=0; $i<$bodysize; $i++) {
$bodyparts[$i] = ereg_replace("\r|\n","",$bodyparts[$i]);
if ($bodyparts[$i]) {
$body .= "$bodyparts[$i]\n";
}
}

The second problem I run into was that the bad words filter was case sensitive on my server (Linux) but not on my own computer (win2k).
Changed the bad words code in addpost.php and modifypost.php from this:

$Subject = preg_replace("/\b($badwords)\b/i",$config[censored],$Subject);
$Body = preg_replace("/\b($badwords)\b/i",$config[censored],$Body);


to this

$Subject = eregi_replace("[[:<:]]($badwords)[[:>:]]",$config[censored],$Subject);
$Body = eregi_replace("[[:<:]]($badwords)[[:>:]]",$config[censored],$Body);