Re: Easier way to clean GET Variables ?

From: Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:12:51 +0000
Subject: Re: Easier way to clean GET Variables ?
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Graham Anderson wrote:
Is there a way to loop thru all of these GET requests by: putting the GET variables into an array processing the variable strings with trim/striptags/etc in a loop exploding the variables back out into separate variables
I just do this: function process_user_input($value) { return mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags(trim($value))); // Or whatever processing you need } $_SAFE_GET = array_map('process_user_input', $_GET); $_SAFE_POST = array_map('process_user_input', $_POST); That way you never need to take them out of an array in the first place. Then you can do things like: mysql_query("INSERT INTO table (col) VALUES ('{$_SAFE_POST['val']}')"); Jasper

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