Filtering:

I've seen alot of boring forms where a vbscript window will popup if the user submits a bad word in the form. Does anyone know of a tutorial or how to make a bad word filter written in asp that basically goes through an array of bad words and if detected the output would be something like:

<%response.write("Profanity is not allowed.")%>

I would just write a function that returns a boolean value if there is a profanity word in the search:

Function IsProfanity(searchstring)

dim blnIsProfane
blnIsProfane = FALSE

'create an array of profane words here
dim arrProfanity(20) 'or however many words you want to come up with
arrProfanity(0) = "badword"
...
...

'now split your searchstring up into an array
dim arrSearchString
arrSearchString = split(searchstring, " ")

'now loop through every word in your search
for i=0 to ubound(arrSearchString)
'now loop through every profane word in your array
for j=0 to ubound(arrProfanity)
if arrSearchString(i) = arrProfanity(j) then
blnIsProfane = TRUE
exit for
end if
next
next

IsProfanity = blnIsProfane


End Function

Then if your function returns FALSE, there is no profanity and you can go on with your search. Otherwise, display the message.

No guarantees, just off the top of my head. Hope that helps.
(sorry i couldn't get the formatting to show in my post)

Jill

Hello,

Thank you very much for your help. I was unable to implement your scripting, but I will as I get better with asp.