• Registered: 2006-05-25
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Topic: How to forbid certain characters from being in subject title & body?

I get spammed a lot with a ? character, and want it to not allow posting if that character is in either the subject title, or body

TIA

  • Registered: 2006-05-25
  • Posts: 36

Re: How to forbid certain characters from being in subject title & body?

bump

  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
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Re: How to forbid certain characters from being in subject title & body?

i(strpos($message, "?"))
message('You can't use this character');

Put this somewhere where it's useful.

4 Reply by Smartys (edited by Smartys 2006-06-08 10:09)

  • Smartys
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Re: How to forbid certain characters from being in subject title & body?

I don't think that would work, because strpos can return both 0 (the character(s) is/are at the 0th position) or false.
You would want

if (strpos($message, "?") !== false)
message('You can't use this character');

Otherwise, by putting it at the beginning of the string the check could be circumvented I believe