It won't automatically catch people, but .... When a user changes a display, have the old and new text emailed to an address set up for the purpose. This will let you see who is making lots of changes, and let you check to see if any of those people are making major adjustments.
Admittedly, it's a bit long-way-round, but the human brain is a much more advanced text processor than you'll be able to easily build, I think. --Ben Doom Chris Long wrote: >> What sort of text? > > The text is about one to three pages in length (in general), and we charge > per entry. I'm trying to allow editing so that the customer can make minor > changes or updates, but not large-scale editing in an attempt to circumvent > charges. > > This is definitely a large scale system so it has to run quickly. That's why > I was hoping more for some sort of encrypt/comparison algorithm as opposed to > one which broke the text down word by word. > > This would need to handle 1000+ customers and generally get an edit once > every minute. Not to mention that this is only a very small portion of what > the website does, so resource or time-intensive solutions are not appropriate. > > I thought about the hash() function, but any minor change will completely > change the value, and that's not what I'm looking for. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271747 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
