message board filtering 1

[myatia]

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone knew of any custom tags that can filter message boards for offensive language. The things people post will be in a plain text, but I'm thinking that I probably will want to strip out any HTML tags they've placed in the message so they can't display pictures in their message or do anything else questionable. Does anyone know of a tag or tags that do these things? If you could pass the info along to me, I'd appreciate it!

Thanks,

Misty

 

[csteinhilber]

You can do it with ColdFusion's built-in functions.

  <CFSET htmlFreeText = REReplace(rawBoardText,&quot;<[^>]*?>&quot;,&quot;&quot;,&quot;ALL&quot;)>
  <CFSET filteredText = ReplaceList(htmlFreeText,&quot;dirtyword1,dirtyword2,dirtyword3&quot;,&quot;****,****,****&quot;)>

The REReplace will do a regular expression search/replace to strip out all HTML tags. And the ReplaceList will replace all occurrances of "dirtyword1", for example, with "****".
Adjust and refine to fit your needs.


-Carl

 

[myatia]

As always, Carl, you're a godsend! Thanks for the info!

Misty