Badwords Filter

woganmay

I'm using Flarum to run a small community forum, and one of the things we'd really like is a badwords filter. Pretty simply, an admin configures a list of words to catch, and the filter blanks out all but the last letter, replacing it with unicode heart symbols or similar.

This seems like the sort of thing that would be best done with an extension, so I'm happy to roll up my sleeves and get it done, if nobody else is working on something like this already.

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woganmay

Take a look at

http://banbuilder.com/

and

https://github.com/sworup/ProfanityFilter

Both use composer. I just am not very good with PHP. I just keep trying different ways to make it work.

JoshyPHP

FYI, the back end already exists so all you have to write is the front end.

If you want the censor to be applied at posting time, listen for the ConfigureFormatter event to add the list of words. The censor will not apply inside of URLs, in code blocks and in the live preview.

$event->configurator->Censor->add('word');

If you want the censor to be applied dynamically at rendering time, I don't know what event to listen to or if there's one. Either way, you may want to use the Censor plugin as a standalone and rely on the censorHtml() method. It will apply inside of code blocks and optionally inside of attribute values. It will not apply to the live preview.

More docs there: http://s9etextformatter.readthedocs.io/Plugins/Censor/Synopsis/