Preventing !!!!!!! ???????

[oldengine]

Is there any way to knock out multiple punctuation like this??????????????

Damn, I hate posts like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or sentences ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ full of this.

[akanevsky]

Of course. Use:
$searcharray = array("/([!]*)/si", "/([?]*)/si", "/([~]*)/si");
$replacearray = array("!", "?", "~");

$txt = preg_replace($searcharray, $replacearray, $txt);

[oldengine]

Thank you for the tools! I'll see if I can apply them properly.

I would presume that functions_newpost.php would be a likely place to insert this. Picking the right spot might be tricky.

[akanevsky]

In functions_bbcodeparse, find:

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start bbcodeparse2 #######################
function parse_bbcode2($bbcode, $dohtml, $dobbimagecode, $dosmilies, $dobbcode, $iswysiwyg = 0, $donl2br = 1, $doresize = 1)
{
// parses text for vB code, smilies and censoring

    global $DB_site, $vboptions, $bbuserinfo, $templatecache, $smiliecache;
    global $html_allowed; 


Add after:

PHP Code:

$searcharray = array("/([!]*)/si", "/([?]*)/si", "/([~]*)/si");
$replacearray = array("!", "?", "~");

$bbcode = preg_replace($searcharray, $replacearray, $bbcode); 


[oldengine]

Text entered:

Title: This is a test!!!

Results: ~?~!~?~T~?~!~?~h~?~!~?~i~?~!~?~s~?~!~?~ ~?~!~?~i~?~!~?~s~?~!~?~ ~?~!~?~a~?~!~?~ ~?~!~?~t~?~!~?~e~?~!~?~s~?~!~?~t~?~!~?~.~?~!~?~ ~?~!~?~ ~?~!~?~!~?~ ~?~!~?~?~!~?~?~!~?~?~!~?~?~!~?~?~!~?~?~!~?~ ~?~!~?~~?~!~?~~?~!~?~~?~!~?~~?~!~?~~?~!~?~~?~!~?~

If you really look inside the above string, you'll see: This is a test!!!

For some reason, it comes back with a string like the above.

[akanevsky]

My code is not supposed to parse those complicated strings of yours.
It is supposed to eliminate "!!!!!!!!!", "??????????" and "~~~~~~~~"...

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Moved to vB3

[Zero Tolerance]

This should fix the problem, find inside functions_bbcodeparse.php:

PHP Code:

$searcharray = array("/([!]*)/si", "/([?]*)/si", "/([~]*)/si"); 


Replace With:

PHP Code:

$searcharray = array("/([!]+)/si", "/([?]+)/si", "/([~]+)/si"); 


Save & Upload.

After testing the string:

OMG!!!!!!1!!!!!1~~~~~~~~~~1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~?????!!!? ????!!!

The output was:

OMG!1!1~1~?!?!

Eliminating all repeating characters (?, ~, !) to a single char.

- Zero Tolerance

[oldengine]

Excellent! Thank you Dark Visor and Zero Tolerance!

[Elenna]

What file(s) should I modify in 3.6.5 to have this work?