I have a list of comments that gets formed. The client asked us to use a profanity filter to check the comments before they get published. I have a ProfanityFilter.cs class. The only thing is I am not sure how to integrate the the two.
Simply put, how to I have the comments hit the filter before they get published.
Thanks in advance!
Here is the code where the list of comments get formed:
public void ProcessRequest (HttpContext context)
{
// ****************************************
if (context.Request["postform"] == "1")
{
videomessage myVideoMessage = new videomessage();
myVideoMessage.video_id = context.Request["video_id"];
myVideoMessage.first_name_submitter = context.Request["first_name_submitter"];
myVideoMessage.last_initial_submitter = context.Request["last_initial_submitter"];
myVideoMessage.message = context.Request["message"];
myVideoMessage.status = "0";
myVideoMessage.Save();
}
// ****************************************
// ****************************************
StringBuilder myStringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
// PULL VIDEOMESSAGES FOR VIDEO_ID
videomessage[] myCommentsList = new videomessage().Listing("video_id", context.Request["video_id"], "entry_date" , "DESC");
// FORM COMMENTS IF MORE THAN ONE COMMENT EXISTS
foreach (videomessage tmpMessage in myCommentsList)
{
if (tmpMessage.status == "0" || tmpMessage.status == "1")
{
myStringBuilder.Append("<div class=\"comment_box\">");
myStringBuilder.Append("<p class=\"comment_date\">");
myStringBuilder.Append(Utility.FormatShortDate(tmpMessage.entry_date) + " " + tmpMessage.first_name_submitter + " " + tmpMessage.last_initial_submitter + "." + "</p>");
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(tmpMessage.message))
{
myStringBuilder.Append("<p>" + tmpMessage.message + "</p>");
myStringBuilder.Append("</div>");
}
}
}
string return_str = myStringBuilder.ToString();
// IF NO COMMENTS RETURN THIS
if( String.IsNullOrEmpty(return_str) ) return_str = "<p>No comments currently exist for this video.</p>";
// ****************************************
// RETURN STRING
context.Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
context.Response.Write(return_str);
}
Here is the filter:
public class ProfanityFilter
{
// METHOD: containsProfanity
public bool containsProfanity(string checkStr)
{
bool badwordpresent = false;
string[] inStrArray = checkStr.Split(new char[] { ' ' });
string[] words = this.profanityArray();
// LOOP THROUGH WORDS IN MESSAGE
for (int x = 0; x < inStrArray.Length; x++)
{
// LOOP THROUGH PROFANITY WORDS
for (int i = 0; i < words.Length; i++)
{
// IF WORD IS PROFANITY, SET FLAG AND BREAK OUT OF LOOP
//if (inStrArray[x].toString().toLowerCase().equals(words[i]))
if( inStrArray[x].ToLower() == words[i].ToLower() )
{
badwordpresent = true;
break;
}
}
// IF FLAG IS SET, BREAK OUT OF OUTER LOOP
if (badwordpresent == true) break;
}
return badwordpresent;
}
// ************************************************************************
// ************************************************************************
// METHOD: profanityArray()
// METHOD OF PROFANITY WORDS
private string[] profanityArray()
{
// THESE WERE UPDATED TO USE THE SAME BADWORDS FROM FACESOFMBCFBAPP
string[] words = {//words in the array}
}
return words;
}
Check these questions:
I would suggest reading the accepted answer to the last question and the CodingHorror blog post. While the OP asked for a PHP solution, you might want to consider an alternate approach after reading those.