Question

I’d like to store banned words in a database to later determine if some word is present (hence being a banned word, which should be censored).

Word input form (ban.php) :

<form name="form" method="post" action="add.php">
    <input type="text" name="bad" id="bad">
    <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" size="12" value="submit">
</form>

PHP code (add.php) :

<?PHP
require_once("config.php"); // db conn

$bad = $_POST['bad'];
$bad = mysql_real_escape_string($bad);
$sql = "insert into my_table set bad='$bad'";

mysql_query($sql, $conn) or die(mysql_error());
echo "Done bad word added";
?>

Let’s say we banned the word ugly. Now I want do this :

<?PHP
require_once("config.php"); // db conn

$qry    = "select * from my_table";
$result = mysql_query($qry) or die($qry);
$test   = "ugly"; // Example

if ($test == any of the words in the db my_table){
    echo "banned";
}else{
    echo "passed";
{
?>

How to do this? There are many added words in my_table :

id,bad (1,'ugly')
id,bad (2,'sick')
id,bad (3,'manal')
id,bad (4,'fog')

Answer 1

You should attempt to select the word from the database, this is much faster than having to go through an array.

Something like this should work.

<?php
require_once("config.php"); // db conn

$test = "ugly"; // remember to use mysql_real_escape_string in the implementation

$qry = "SELECT * FROM `my_table` WHERE bad='{$test}'"; // select by value
$result=mysql_query($qry);

if( mysql_num_rows( $result ) ){ // we have a row with the 'bad' word
    echo "banned";
}else{
    echo "passed";
}
?>