Filter some words

Question

I want to filter some reserved word on my title form.

$adtitle = sanitize($_POST['title']);
$ignore = array('sale','buy','rent');
if(in_array($adtitle, $ignore)) {
$_SESSION['ignore_error'] = '<strong>'.$adtitle.'</strong> cannot be use as your title';
header('Location:/submit/');
exit;

• How to make something like this. If user type Car for sale the sale will detected as reserved keyword.
• Now my current code only detect single keyword only.

Answer 1

You're probably looking for a regular expression:

foreach($ignore as $keyword) {
  if(preg_match("/\b$keyword\b/i", $adtitle) {
    // Uhoh, the user used a bad word!!
  }
}

This will also prevent some false positives, such as 'torrent' not coming up as a reserved word because it contains 'rent'.

Answer 2

function isValidTitle($str) {
   // these may want to be placed in a config file
   $badWords = array('sale','buy','rent'); 

    foreach($badWords as $word) {
        if (strstr($str, $word)) return false; // found a word!
    }
    // no bad word found
    return true;

}

If you'd like to match the words only (not partial matches as well, as in within other words), try this modified one below

function isValidTitle($str) {

       $badWords = array('sale','buy','rent'); 

        foreach($badWords as $word) {
            if (preg_match('/\b' . trim($word) . '\b/i', $str)) return false; 
        }

        return true;

    }

Answer 3

$adtitle = sanitize($_POST['title']);

$ignoreArr = array('sale','buy','rent');

foreach($ignoreArr as $ignore){
if(strpos($ignore, $adtitle)!==false){

 $_SESSION['ignore_error'] = '<strong>'.$adtitle.'</strong> cannot

be use as your title';

 break;
}  

} header('Location:/submit/');

exit;

This should work. Not tested though.

Answer 4

How about something as simple as this:

if ( preg_match("/\b" . implode("|", $ignore) . "\b/i", $adtitle) ) {
    // No good
}

Answer 5

You could also try something like this:

$ignore = array('sale','rent','buy');
$invalid = array_intersect($ignore, preg_split('{\W+}', $adtitle));

Then $invalid will contain a list of all the reserved words used in the title. This could be useful if you wanted to explain why the title cannot be used.

EDIT:

$invalid = array_intersect($ignore, preg_split('{\W+}', strtolower($adtitle));

if you want case-insensitive matching.