Automatic Word Replacements

[Glock21]

We have recently come into a court order where all of our forum members are not allowed to say certain acronyms, and thus I must do automatic word replacements. The problem is, it doesn't work quite right. For example if I ban ABC and BC also, in half the cases it will leave A and then BC will be properly replaced, if that makes any sense. Is there any way to have it search out for terms in an order like if it finds ABC to change it, instead of having the replacements take each other over?

[Steve Machol]

The only tools available are the cebnsor options and the replacement variables. If either of these is not sufficient then you'll need to create a hack to do this.

[Glock21]

Why would the 2nd replacements such as searching for BC instead of ABC first be happening though?

[Steve Machol]

Try banning:

ABC {BC}

[Glock21]

These are multiple words at once that need changed, so I can't really use the censorship option.

[Yo.]

If it's a court order maybe you should think about doing a preg_replace on post input.

[Glock21]

A what what in the what? Layman's terms, please

[Yo.]

Well, essentially what I'm saying is that you would need to hack your board. Check vBulletin.org for more info on this.

[Scott MacVicar]

the replacement variables are done in the order they are called
so if you had the following set
test = ab
b = something

and you posted test, the end result would be asomething

since
test would become ab and then b would be replaced by something.

[Glock21]

There's also an issue where it will replace ABC but not abc and vise versa, is there a way to make them system look for both?