Re: foreach and form submission.

From: 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

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