Jim Lucas wrote:
> 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.
>
Right, so: $d = array($a, $b, $c); would give you an array like this:
0 => "'hello'"
1 => "sup"
2 => "\\hola'"
Whereas: $d = compact('a', 'b', 'c'); would give you:
'a' => "'hello'"
'b' => "sup"
'c' => "\\hola'"
So the keys are your var names instead of numerical indexes.
Also, I can't test it now, but a shorter though cramped way might be
(assuming that you modify escape() to return instead of modifying the
reference):
extract(escape($id, compact('a', 'b', 'c')));
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Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
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