PHP Tutorial Bad Word Filter Function and Harmful Character String Replacement System

PHP Tutorial Bad Word Filter Function and Harmful Character String Replacement System

Listening Video

Learn to build bad word or harmful character filter functions and data filtration systems for user input. We are using the str_ireplace() php function fed with arrays.

Lesson Code

<?php

function badWordFilter($data){

    $originals = array("douche","punch","damn");

    $replacements = array("friend","love","wow");

    $data = str_ireplace($originals,$replacements,$data);

    return $data;

}

$myData = "Hi douche, damn I want to punch you for a good cause!";

$cleaned = badWordFilter($myData);

echo $cleaned;

?>

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