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

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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.

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text

String to test.

error

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

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Returns TRUE if there are suspicious characters, FALSE otherwise.

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Example #1 Spoofchecker::isSuspicious() example

<?php
$checker = new Spoofchecker();

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

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