Re: [PHP4BETA] Feature Request

Scott Stevenson wrote: > > PHP3 has some really handy functions for dealing with strings, such as > nl2br, htmlspecialchars, addslashes, chop, etc. Basically, things that can > be accomplished with regular expressions, but are far more convenient and > easy to use. it was repeated for several times that regexp performs slower on string(I would say large strings) than these cute little functions under /string.functions :) > In a slightly different vein, it would be nice if there were some functions > for dealing with form validation. First and foremost, this is important for > security reasons. As far as I can tell, PHP doesn't have anything like > Perl's -T option, and I'm a little concerned about what's coming down the > pipe. Secondly, it would be nice to know if you're getting what you asked > for. you mean the `` stuff? just have those magic_quotes_gpc on. > The functions would do things like search a string for a valid email > address, valid phone number, or a zip/country code -- stripping out any > potentially dangerous (or incorrect) characters. Ideally, this would work > like: > > <form action="mail.phtml" method="post"> > <input type="text" name="email_addr"> > <input type="text" name="phone_num"> > <input type="zip" name="zip_code"> > </form> > > ------ > > $cleanEmail = get_email($email_addr); > $cleanPhone = get_phone($phone_num); > $cleanZip = get_uszip($zip_code); some pal posted on this list an announce of such a class to do this kindof stuff. Maybe he can do it again, as I missed it too. These can be easily written, no need to be "native". > A regex would be applied to find what you're looking for, and failing that, > the function would return a false. Making this type of stuff into neat > little functions makes it more accessible to newbies, and more elegant for > normal users. It's sort of the "PHP way". :) a formClass would be just as elegant as this. > I'd do this myself, but I'm not fluent in C. then try php, it's easier ;) -- CIMPOESU Teodor, Web Programmer (h) @ DIGICOM S.A. Bucharest, Romania @ Internet, site development @ teo@digiro.net, +(401)-330.47.28 official home page ~ http://www.digiro.net/ Internet web page ~ http://internet.digiro.net/