Posted by Robert Cummings on 08/25/05 06:22

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 23:12, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> Graham Anderson wrote:
> > Is there a way to loop thru all of these GET requests by:
> > putting the GET variables into an array
> > processing the variable strings with trim/striptags/etc in a loop
> > exploding the variables back out into separate variables
>
> I just do this:
>
> function process_user_input($value) {
> return mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags(trim($value)));
> // Or whatever processing you need
> }
>
> $_SAFE_GET = array_map('process_user_input', $_GET);
> $_SAFE_POST = array_map('process_user_input', $_POST);
>
> That way you never need to take them out of an array in the first place.
> Then you can do things like:
>
> mysql_query("INSERT INTO table (col) VALUES ('{$_SAFE_POST['val']}')");


Still need to check isset() status unless you've disabled E_NOTICE which
I don't advise since it's sloppy ;)

Cheers,
Rob.
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