[SOLVED] Sanitizing array using strip_tags and htmlentities

[allinurl]

Hello. Im sanitizing an array of $_POST values with the function sanitize_values(), what Im trying to do now is to sanitize the array but instead of doing the way Im doing it

I would like to do it using strip_tags and htmlentities. What could be the best way of doing this using those functions mentioned before. Thanks in advance

 

function sanitize_values($value)
{
$search = array( '&', '\\', '<', '>', '[', ']' );
$replace = array( '&', '&#92;', '<', '>', '&#91;', '&#93;' );
$str = str_replace( $search, $replace, $str );
return( $str ); 
}

[zq29]

return htmlentities(strip_tags($str),ENT_QUOTES);

[allinurl]

Thanks for your reply, the problem is that Im not passing it as a string, Im passing it as an array.

[papaface]

function sanitize_values($array)
{
foreach ($array as $k => $v)
{
$array[$k] = htmlentities(strip_tags($v),ENT_QUOTES);
}
return $array;
}

or:

function sanitize_values($val)
{
if (is_array($val))
{
  foreach ($val as $k => $v)
   {
   $val[$k] = htmlentities(strip_tags($v),ENT_QUOTES);
   }
  }
else
  {
  $val = htmlentities(strip_tags($val),ENT_QUOTES);
  }
return $val;
}

[zq29]

Alternatively...

<?php
function clean($var) {
    if(is_array($var)) {
        array_map("clean",$var);
    } else {
        $var = htmlentities(strip_tags($var),ENT_QUOTES);
    }
    return $var;
}
?>

[allinurl]

Thanks alot, that's what I was looking for... 

[darkfreaks]

solve topic please