note 87562 added to function.htmlspecialchars

Here's a simple function I wrote for parsing form data. It checks if it's an array and it is recursive (it calls itself). It also decodes things that have already been encoded so it doesn't change &amp; to &amp;amp; <?php function formspecialchars($var) { if (is_array($var)) { $out = array(); foreach ($var as $key => $v) { $out[$key] = formspecialchars($v); } } else { $out = htmlspecialchars_decode($var); $out = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(trim($out)), ENT_QUOTES); } return $out; } ?> I encourage people to improve upon this for other purposes! All I use it for is cleaning up form data, hence the name of the function. ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 158.83.184.42 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/87562 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87562/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87562/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87562/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87562/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87562/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87562/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87562 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/87562 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php