Check if string contains word in array

Question

This is for a chat page. I have a $string = \"This dude is a mothertrucker\". I have an array of badwords: $bads = array(\'truck\', \'shot\', etc)

Answer 1

You can do the filter this way also

$string = "This dude is a mothertrucker";
if (preg_match_all('#\b(truck|shot|etc)\b#', $string )) //add all bad words here.       
    {
  echo "There is a bad word in the string";
    } 
else {
    echo "There is no bad word in the string";
   }