UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? word censor

I notice the bad word censor does not filter out characters like '$'.

Is $ some kind of escape character in php??

Yeah, special characters can really hose up your word filter. you can try placing a backslash before it to comment it out

ie if you want to censor "a$$" try this: "a\$\$". Untested, but that might work.

Nope that doesn't work. The backslash trick works for slashes.

I had a client today in fact that put: "b/c" in their badwords file. Anytime there's a slash like that, every post and subject ends up totally blank. You have to use "b\/c". But that trick doesn't work with the dollar sign.

Gotcha, thanks for the info.

just off the top of my head, how about if you quote it, to make it a literal.

I'm pretty sure that 6.5 handles the censor list differently and characters such as $ will behave properly

I tried censoring variants for words before with interesting results. I think it was sh!t that I tried to censor, that ended up sensoring st., as in the abbreviation for saint and street.

is there any more info on what exactly the special characters are how you can use them in the bad words list in 6.4?

The back-slash does not work on the $. The word sh!t gets filtered just fine, though. Putting things like "$hit" in double quotes doesn't help either.

I guess I'm looking for the escape character and a list of special characters. Thanks.

Bump. Anyone have any info on what the "special characters" are and how to use them in the bad word list?

[]Rhett said:
is there any more info on what exactly the special characters are how you can use them in the bad words list in 6.4?

The back-slash does not work on the $. The word sh!t gets filtered just fine, though. Putting things like "$hit" in double quotes doesn't help either.

I guess I'm looking for the escape character and a list of special characters. Thanks. [/]