Jay Moore wrote:
> Shawn McKenzie wrote:
>> Jay Moore wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> I would try: $d = compact('a', 'b', 'c');
>>
>
> What is the difference? Please excuse my naivety. :)
>
> Jay
>
Good point.
http://us2.php.net/compact
Key phrase...
"it does the opposite of extract()"
So, using that I would do it like this...
$a = "'hello'";
$b = "sup";
$c = "\\hola'";
$d = compact('a', 'b', 'c');
escape($id, $d);
extract($d);
with the above changes to the escape() function.
--
Jim Lucas
"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
by William Shakespeare
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