Show Thread Enhancements - FractalizeR: Extended Post Censor

What this hack does?
This hack is a post censor, that will replace unwanted words and phrases by the values you specify.

Features:

• Supports standard replace
• Supports replacing using regular expressions
• Allows to apply censor only to specified usergroups
• On-the-fly regular expression syntax checking

Some use cases:

• I don't like posts with multiple exclamation or question marks. Maximum three signs is allowed.
• Sometimes you ban competitor forum names from using on your forum. But users enter them separating letters by spaces or underscores. This is unwanted and it is difficult to deal with using standard censor
• Any forms of curses and bad words should be replaced by XXX

Version was tested under VB 3.6.8, but supposed to work on any 3.6.x release. Please report all compatibility issues here.

Please look at control panel screenshot below (please mind, that I am russian and screenshots are from russian forum, so for example usergroup names are incorrectly displayed when I set langauge to English).

[FreshFroot]

hmm looks really good. I know a lot of people try to bypass the filters with spaced.

Just wondering, can this also bypass other characters besides the basic alphabet? Because I know people were using other characters that look like the alphabet to bypass the filters, not sure if your hack can filter it or not?

[zglows]

cool!

[FractalizeR]

Originally Posted by FreshFroot

Just wondering, can this also bypass other characters besides the basic alphabet? Because I know people were using other characters that look like the alphabet to bypass the filters, not sure if your hack can filter it or not?

Yes, of course. You can use \xhh in search pattern, that denotes symbol with hexadecimal code hh. You can read more about this here: http://ru2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php

[brandondrury]

I'm not sure if I did something wrong or not, but it's not working. The text isn't showing up and I'm getting the following errors.

Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in \includes\class_postbit.php(296) : eval()'d code on line 15

Warning: array_values() [function.array-values]: The argument should be an array in \includes\class_postbit.php(296) : eval()'d code on line 15

Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in \includes\class_postbit.php(296) : eval()'d code on line 23

Warning: array_values() [function.array-values]: The argument should be an array in \includes\class_postbit.php(296) : eval()'d code on line 23

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Empty regular expression in \includes\class_postbit.php(296) : eval()'d code on line 23

I'm using 3.6.8 on a local Xampp server.

Brandon

[FractalizeR]

Could you please show me a screenshot of your settings in control panel?

[brandondrury]

I had done several of my arrays, but always came up with the same result. I ended up just copying and pasting your sample array even though I don't see anyone typing "StringIWantToReplaceInto1" anytime soon. Still, no luck.

Brandon

[projectego]

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[FractalizeR]

brandondrury, have you get rid of those nasty error messages? I cannot reproduce this situation on my forum. About filter - have you set usergroups this filter should be applied to? Filtering will work only for usergroups you select.

Does someone who also installed this hack has any problems with it?

[Elenna]

I havn't tried it yet, i'm still fiddling with the expressions. How would I go about doing the same for multiple question marks? When I put a ? in there, it tells me that there is something wrong with my expression.

Here is what I have in the Regular Expression part:

Return(array(
'/!{3,}/' => '!!!',
'/?{3,}/' => '???'
));

I would also like to limit the signs to just one. Would I just change the code to:

Return(array(
'/!{1,}/' => '!',
'/?{1,}/' => '?'
));