Re: Passing an undetermined amount of arguments by reference

Shawn McKenzie wrote:

Jay Moore wrote:

Jim Lucas wrote:

Jay Moore wrote:

Greetings list. Say I have a function that escapes a string before being passed to MySQL like so: function escape($id, &$string) {

    $string }

Use an array as an alternate method of sending/returning data to the second argument. function escape($id, &$data) {

    if ( is_array($data) ) {
        foreach ( $data AS $k => $v ) {
            escape($id, $v);
            $data[$k] = $v;
        }
    } else {
        $data = mysql_real_escape_string($data, $id);
    }

} This would handle any number of nested arrays/datasets. Hope it helps.

Will that work properly? $a = "'hello'"; $b = "sup"; $c = "\\hola'"; $d = array($a, $b, $c); escape($id, $d); Jay

I would try: $d = compact('a', 'b', 'c');

What is the difference? Please excuse my naivety. :) Jay