ArizonaJohn Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Hello, For the code below, I would like to strip apostrophes, periods, and slashes from the variable $find if the user enters them in. How can I do that? I would like to simply delete these characters, and not replace them with an underscore or anything like that. Thanks in advance, John <div class="searchbox"> <form action="search.php" method="post"> <label>Enter Topic: <input type="text" name="find" size="55"/> <input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" /> <input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" /> </label> </form> </div> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeps21 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Try using this function function clean_data($data) { $code_entities_match = array(' ','--','"','!','@','#','$','%','^','&','*','(',')','_','+','{','}','|',':','"','<','>','?','[',']','\\',';',"'",',','.','/','*','+','~','`','='); $code_entities_replace = array('','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','',''); $clean = str_replace($code_entities_match, $code_entities_replace, $data); return $clean; } // You would use it like follows $clean_data = clean_data($_POST['find']); Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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