form data methods

I would be very helpful if we had a class which had methods (or they were bound with an already existing class) that handled form data in the following way, similar to the code found in Horde's framework: function getRequestData($in_var, $in_type = 'gpc', $in_default = null, $in_stripSlashes = true, $in_unserialize = false) { // I do this fancy stuff so that you can retrieve an element // of an array by just typing getRequestData('foo[one][two]') if ($pos = strpos($in_var, '[')) { $var = '[' . substr($in_var, 0, $pos) . ']' . substr($in_var, $pos); } else { $var = '[' . $in_var . ']'; } switch (true) { case stristr($in_type, 'p'): if (eval("return isset(\$_POST$var);")) { $data = $in_stripSlashes ? HTTP::disableMagicQuotes(eval("return \$_POST$var;")) : eval("return \$_POST$var;"); break; } case stristr($in_type, 'g'): if (eval("return isset(\$_GET$var);")) { $data = $in_stripSlashes ? HTTP::disableMagicQuotes(eval("return \$_GET$var;")) : eval("return \$_GET$var;"); break; } case stristr($in_type, 'c'): if (eval("return isset(\$_COOKIE$var);")) { $data = $in_stripSlashes ? HTTP::disableMagicQuotes(eval("return \$_COOKIE$var;")) : eval("return \$_COOKIE$var;"); break; } default: break; } if (!isset($data)) { return $in_default; } else { return $in_unserialize ? unserialize($data) : $data; } } Where natural disableMagicQuotes does the obvious check for get_magic_quotes_gpc() and then strips them if they are found. This way you can do getRequestData('foo', 'gp', 'default'); Just a thought...I use it in my own code all the time. Dan -- ________________________________________________________________ Daniel Allen, <dan@mojavelinux.com> http://www.mojavelinux.com/ ________________________________________________________________ "If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do." -- Linus Torvalds ________________________________________________________________