note 84867 modified in function.htmlentities by felipe

From: Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:13:39 +0000
Subject: note 84867 modified in function.htmlentities by felipe
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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 htmlizeArray(&$txtArray) { if (is_array($txtArray)) { foreach ($txtArray as $key => $val) { htmlizeArray($val); } } else { htmlentities($txtArray); } } ?> --was-- 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; } ?> http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

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