Chis, I think this might do what you want:
foreach ($_REQUEST as $key => $value) { switch ($key) { case "email": // do email stuff break; case "address": // do address stuff break; default: // in case it's something you haven't planned for.. break; } } On Mon February 2 2004 4:36 pm, Chris Payne wrote: > Hi there everyone, > > I need to write a function (New to them but starting to get the hang of it) > that will take the field from a form and then do operations on it (To > remove bad characters, any entered mysql commands etc ....) now that's not > a problem, what I want to do though is write a generic function that will > handle ALL the fields in any form. > > For example, if I have 3 input boxes, name, address, email - I would like > the function to recieve the data from each form string and do the operation > and then send the info back keeping the same name and value that it arrived > in. I'm finding it hard to explain, but basically if a field is called > email and it's value is [EMAIL PROTECTED] then the function needs to be able to > automatically pickup that the incoming name is email and it's value it > [EMAIL PROTECTED] then process it and output it again, and i'm confused how to do > it. > > I can do it if I specify the name of the form item coming in and going out, > but since I want to make it generic I don't want a zillion different > possible form names in the function :-) > > Any help (If you can understand my rambling :-) would be greatly > appreciated. > > Regards > > Chris -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php