Spoofchecker::isSuspicious
(PHP 5 >= 5.4.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL intl >= 2.0.0)
Spoofchecker::isSuspicious — Checks if a given text contains any suspicious characters
Description
$string
, int &$errorCode
= null
): boolChecks if given string contains any suspicious characters like letters which are almost identical visually, but are Unicode characters from different sets.
Parameters
-
string
-
String to test.
-
errorCode
-
This variable is set by-reference to int containing an error, if there was 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"