Thanks!
Justin
on 02/06/02 1:18 PM, Bogdan Stancescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> First, you don't need to explode and then implode - just use a different
> var for the exploded array and use the original after the test.
>
> My suggestion for testing (but you really must test it and see if it's
> faster or slower than your method) is using wordwrap() with your max
> word length and then check if any line is longer than your max allowed
> length. The advantage may be that you probably use 10-15 as the max
> length in real life and you would skip quite a few checks because you're
> going to end up with several words on a typical line. I guess it *might*
> be slightly fatser because wordwrap() is native to PHP - the job however
> is more complicated, so you may end up with a slower version than your
> current one.
>
> Bogdan
>
> Justin French wrote:
>
>> hi all,
>>
>> looking for some advice on the best way to approach this:
>>
>> i have a guestbook running on a few sites, and occasionally we get
>> "creative" people who think it's a good idea to post messages with really
>> long words or URLs into the text, which totally mess up the layout of the
>> page.
>>
>> what I need is an efficient way of checking the input for extremely long
>> words (say about 60-odd characters +)
>>
>> I assume I just split the input by " " (space) into an array, and check that
>> each "word" isn't longer than 60 chars, but this seems like a lot of work
>> for the server... although I am limiting the entire input to 2000 chars, so
>> maybe this isn't too much work for the server?
>>
>>
>> this is what I'm using:
>> <?
>> $word_length = 5;
>> $error = 0;
>>
>> $str = "cat dog bird mouse elephant"; // illegal
>> $str = explode(" ", $str);
>>
>> foreach($str as $key => $word)
>> {
>> if(strlen($word) > $word_length)
>> { $error = 1; }
>> }
>> if($error)
>> { echo "sorry"; }
>> else
>> {
>> $str = implode(" ", $str);
>> echo $str."<BR>";
>> }
>> ?>
>>
>> any ways to improve it?
>>
>>
>> Justin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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