Spoofchecker::isSuspicious

(PHP 5 >= 5.4.0, PHP 7, PECL intl >= 2.0.0)

Spoofchecker::isSuspicious — Checks if a given text contains any suspicious characters

Description

public Spoofchecker::isSuspicious ( string $text [, string &$error ] ) : bool

Checks if given string contains any suspicious characters like letters which are almost identical visually, but are Unicode characters from different sets.

Parameters

text: String to test.
error: This variable is set by-reference to string containing an error, if there were any.

Return Values

Returns TRUE if there are suspicious characters, FALSE otherwise.

Examples

Example #1 Spoofchecker::isSuspicious() example


<?php
$checker = new Spoofchecker();

$checker->isSuspicious('google.com'); // FALSE: only ASCII characters

$checker->isSuspicious('Рaypal.com'); // TRUE
// The first letter is from Cyrylic, not a regular latin "P"