Word censorship and URL-BBCode

[Stephen25]

I need to censor a few URLs that are posted by humans again and again (with newly created accounts) using an IP range I can't block without locking out half of my users. I seem to have found a working solution, but would greatly appreaciate if someone experienced has a quick look at it to make sure I'm doing nothing which could hurt my board in the long-term.

As described in this KB article I change :

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         // Remove the uid from tags that have not been transformed into HTML
         if ($this->bbcode_uid)
         {
            $message = str_replace(':' . $this->bbcode_uid, '', $message);

to

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         // Remove the uid from tags that have not been transformed into HTML
         if ($this->bbcode_uid)
         {
            $message = str_replace(':' . $this->bbcode_uid, '', $message);
            $message = censor_text($message);

But in order to work for censoring URLs in any case I have to make a second edit and search at line ~120 for:

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		// Remove the uid from tags that have not been transformed into HTML
		$message = str_replace(':' . $this->bbcode_uid, '', $message);
	}

and change it to

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		// Remove the uid from tags that have not been transformed into HTML
		$message = str_replace(':' . $this->bbcode_uid, '', $message);
		$message = censor_text($message);
	}

Is that OK? By the way I'm using 3.0.9, but checked the bbcode.php of v3.0.7-PL1 and those changes would be the same.

Thanks!

[Stephen25]

Nobody knows the answer?

[Patrick]

Hello Stephen25,

I was going to say that you could use Censor Block, but it informs people when something is blocked. It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's still blocked and includes the URL field, profile fields, posts, etc.

It may work for you: http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/8908

Thanks,

Patrick

[Stephen25]

Thanks a lot for your reply.

I would very much prefer to use the method I posted above. I just need somebody experienced that tells me if the 2nd code change is OK or could hurt my board?