Re: Sanitize and hyphens
But why do hyphens need to be escaped in the first place?
I looked at the function cleanValue (that is called by cleanArray) and
it makes several replacements, some of them look weird, for example:
$val = str_replace(!, !, $val);
$val = str_replace(', ', $val);
I guess the intention was to write something like $val =
str_replace(', #39;, $val); but were copied from some web page
and the entities got lost.
I prefer to stick to the regular php function htmlspecialchars;
writing your own wrapper for this function to operate on arrays is
very easy.
On Mar 7, 8:32 pm, squidliberty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have several areas of my site where it is necessary to sanitize
large amounts of user form data. cleanArray() makes this process a
breeze - however, I have found that it replaces hyphens ('-') with the
htmlentity equivalent ('#45;'). This is a big problem for email
addresses, which may contain hyphens.
How should I be handling this? My best solution was to create a
fixSafeChar() function to convert the hyphens back. But this seems
pretty crude.
Any suggestions? Is cleanArray() not the right function for the task?
Thanks!
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Sanitize and hyphens
I have several areas of my site where it is necessary to sanitize
large amounts of user form data. cleanArray() makes this process a
breeze - however, I have found that it replaces hyphens ('-') with the
htmlentity equivalent ('#45;'). This is a big problem for email
addresses, which may contain hyphens.
How should I be handling this? My best solution was to create a
fixSafeChar() function to convert the hyphens back. But this seems
pretty crude.
Any suggestions? Is cleanArray() not the right function for the task?
Thanks!
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Re: Sanitize and hyphens
On 3/8/07, squidliberty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How should I be handling this? My best solution was to create a fixSafeChar() function to convert the hyphens back. But this seems pretty crude. Thats what I have done as well... However, the problem is usually in the URLs and emails - a better solution is to use a regex for validating. The presumption being if it validates it does not need cleaning ;) Cheers Tarique -- = PHP for E-Biz: http://sanisoft.com Cheesecake-Photoblog: http://cheesecake-photoblog.org = --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
