Re: Passing an undetermined amount of arguments by reference

[Jay Moore <jaymoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Lucas wrote:
> Jay Moore wrote:
> > Greetings list.
> >
> > Say I have a function that escapes a string before being passed to MySQL
> > like so:
> >
> > function escape($id, &$string)
> > {
> >     $string 
> > }
>
> Use an array as an alternate method of sending/returning data to the second argument.
>
> function escape($id, &$data) {
> 	if ( is_array($data) ) {
> 		foreach ( $data AS $k => $v ) {
> 			escape($id, $v);
> 			$data[$k] = $v;
> 		}
> 	} else {
> 		$data = mysql_real_escape_string($data, $id);
> 	}
> }
>
> This would handle any number of nested arrays/datasets.
>
> Hope it helps.

Will that work properly?

$a = "'hello'";
$b = "sup";
$c = "\\hola'";

$d = array($a, $b, $c);

escape($id, $d);

Jay

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