Clientside Swear Filter

[Tigairius]

As you may or may not know, I am one of the pioneers in removing foul language around Graal. I don't like to read it, I don't like to write it, I don't want to hear it, I don't want to see it.

However, I believe that people should have the choice as to whether or not they want to see the text or not.

So, I have devised a quick clientside swear filter for those of you who agree.

It probably needs to be improved in the future to run more efficiently, but this is a nice step in the right direction. You will still have to filter your PMs using the default graal rules.txt which is highly recommended, but now you can add a choice to whether or not the player wants to filter the swear words.

Here is the weapon script:

PHP Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
  this.swearwords = {
    {"testing", "*******"},
    {"test2", "*******"},
    {"damn", "****"}
  };
}

function onPlayerChats() {
  switch (player.chat) {
    case "filteron":
      client.swearfilter = true;
      player.chat = "Swear filter is now on!";
    break;
    case "filteroff":
      client.swearfilter = false;
      player.chat = "Swear filter is now off.";
    break;
  }
}

function onRemotePlayerChats(obj, chat) {
  if (client.swearfilter) {
    for (temp.s = 0; temp.s < this.swearwords.size(); temp.s ++) {
      if (obj.chat.pos(this.swearwords[temp.s][0]) >= 0) {
        obj.chat = replacetext(obj.chat, this.swearwords[temp.s][0], this.swearwords[temp.s][1]);
      } 
    }
  }
}

// edited version of my replacetext function in the code gallery
// http://forums.graalonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79538
// this one is not case sensitive
function replacetext(text, oldtext, newtext) {
  temp.oldlen   = oldtext.length();
  temp.textdiff = newtext.length() - temp.oldlen;
  
  for (temp.p: text.lower().positions(oldtext.lower())) {
    temp.pos = temp.p + temp.textdiff * (temp.index ++);
    text = text.substring(0, temp.pos) @ newtext @ text.substring(temp.pos + temp.oldlen);
  }
  
  return text;
} 


As you can see, I added an example of how to turn on/off the sear filter by using the commands "filteron" and "filteroff."

I'd like to start seeing these sort of methods used around Graal to prevent foul language.