badwords.php,How do I replace bad words with php?

header('Content-Type: text/plain');

$text = 'word1 some more words. word2 and some more words';

$text = preg_replace_callback('!\w+!', 'filter_bad_words', $text);

echo $text;

$bad_words = array(

'word1' => 'gosh',

'word2' => 'darn',

);

function filter_bad_words($matches) {

global $bad_words;

$replace = $bad_words[$matches[0]];

return isset($replace) ? $replace : $matches[0];

}

?>

That is a simple filter but it has many limitations. Like it won't stop variations on spelling, use of spaces or other non-word characters in between letters, replacement of letters with numbers and so on. But how sophisticated you want it to be is up to you basically.

UPDATE (9/11/2016)

I realize this is 7 years old, but newer versions of php seem to throw an exception if the word being tested is not in the $bad_words array. To fix this, I have changed the last two lines of filter_bad_words() as follows:

$replace = array_key_exists($matches[0], $bad_words) ? $bad_words[$matches[0]] : false;

return $replace ?: $matches[0];