note 84867 added to function.htmlentities

This looping function below is useful to disable html in user generated content (message board posts, webpage-based chat clients, etc). And, so far, it's worked fine alone for sanitizing user input for database storage. "htmlize_text" here preserves keys and works on recursive arrays. <?php $_GET = htmlize_text($_GET); $_POST = htmlize_text($_POST); function htmlize_text($txtarray) { // return translated txtarray if (is_array($txtarray)) { foreach ($txtarray as $key => $val) { $txtarray[$key] = htmlize_text($val); } } else { $txtarray = htmlentities(trim($txtarray),ENT_QUOTES); } return $txtarray; } ?> ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 24.107.184.98 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/84867 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84867/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84867/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84867/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84867/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84867/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84867/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84867 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/84867 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php