note 110103 added to filter.filters.sanitize

Remember to trim() the $_POST before your filters are applied: <?php // We trim the $_POST data before any spaces get encoded to "%20" // Trim array values using this function "trim_value" function trim_value(&$value) { $value = trim($value); // this removes whitespace and related characters from the beginning and end of the string } array_filter($_POST, 'trim_value'); // the data in $_POST is trimmed $postfilter = // set up the filters to be used with the trimmed post array array( 'user_tasks' => array('filter' => FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING, 'flags' => !FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_LOW), // removes tags. formatting code is encoded -- add nl2br() when displaying 'username' => array('filter' => FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED, 'flags' => FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_LOW), // we are using this in the url 'mod_title' => array('filter' => FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED, 'flags' => FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_LOW), // we are using this in the url ); $revised_post_array = filter_var_array($_POST, $postfilter); // must be referenced via a variable which is now an array that takes the place of $_POST[] echo (nl2br($revised_post_array['user_tasks'])); //-- use nl2br() upon output like so, for the ['user_tasks'] array value so that the newlines are formatted, since this is our HTML <textarea> field and we want to maintain newlines ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 71.172.140.197 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.sanitize.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/110103 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110103/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110103/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110103/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110103/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110103/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110103/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110103 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/110103 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php