Re: foreach and form submission.
| From: | Virgilio Quilario | Date: | Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:31:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: foreach and form submission. | ||
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> Hi all.
>
> I'm writing a script that accepts several different forms with different content.
> Depending on what data is sent with the form the script will do one or the other think.
>
> Before the form data is processed I'd like to scrub it of HTML tags.
>
> I can do this manually as below but the form may have dozens of items of data so I'd like
> to automate it.
>
> $_POST['name'] = strip_tags($_POST['name']);
> $_POST['address'] = strip_tags($_POST['address']);
> $_POST['phone'] = strip_tags($_POST['phone']);
>
> I saw a few lines of code once that used "foreach" on the $_POST array elements and
> it did not seem to matter how many or what names the elements had.
>
> Conceptually like this
>
> foreach ($_POST - element) {
> $_POST-element = strip_tags($_POST-element)
> }
>
> Any ideas please ?
>
> Thanks.
>
here,
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
$_POST[$key] = strip_tags($value);
}
good luck.
virgil
http://www.jampmark.com