Can someone help me with array_walk/array_map?

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Folks,

I have a multi-dimensional array that I read from my mysql database. I'd
like to run strip slashes against each element and I'm pretty sure that
array_walk() (or array_map) is likely to solve my problem - But I've not got
the foggiest
on how to use it - I've taken a look in the php.chm manual supplied from
php.net and I don't seem to have had any success so far - Can anyone suggest
how I could stripslashes to every element without having to build my own
function?

(I don't want to use my own function when one already exists in PHP - In
part, because its more performance effective to use a precompiled function).

all helps.. via the newsgroup... is much apprecaited,

thanks
randelld

[Amir Khawaja]

Re: Can someone help me with array_walk/array_map?

Reply-Via-Newsgroup wrote:
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> Folks,
>
> I have a multi-dimensional array that I read from my mysql database. I'd
> like to run strip slashes against each element and I'm pretty sure that
> array_walk() (or array_map) is likely to solve my problem - But I've not got
> the foggiest
> on how to use it - I've taken a look in the php.chm manual supplied from
> php.net and I don't seem to have had any success so far - Can anyone suggest
> how I could stripslashes to every element without having to build my own
> function?
>
> (I don't want to use my own function when one already exists in PHP - In
> part, because its more performance effective to use a precompiled function).
>
> all helps.. via the newsgroup... is much apprecaited,
>
> thanks
> randelld
>
>
>[/color]

Try the following (untested) function:

function stripSlashes(&$ var) {
if (is_string($var )) {
$var = stripslashes($v ar);
} else { // assume it is an array
foreach($var as $key => $value) {
stripSlashes($v ar[$key]);
}
}
}

--
Amir Khawaja.

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[Randell D.]

Re: Can someone help me with array_walk/array_map?


"Amir Khawaja" <amir@gorebels. net> wrote in message
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> Reply-Via-Newsgroup wrote:
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> > Folks,
> >
> > I have a multi-dimensional array that I read from my mysql database.[/color][/color]
I'd[color=blue][color=green]
> > like to run strip slashes against each element and I'm pretty sure that
> > array_walk() (or array_map) is likely to solve my problem - But I've not[/color][/color]
got[color=blue][color=green]
> > the foggiest
> > on how to use it - I've taken a look in the php.chm manual supplied from
> > php.net and I don't seem to have had any success so far - Can anyone[/color][/color]
suggest[color=blue][color=green]
> > how I could stripslashes to every element without having to build my own
> > function?
> >
> > (I don't want to use my own function when one already exists in PHP - In
> > part, because its more performance effective to use a precompiled[/color][/color]
function).[color=blue][color=green]
> >
> > all helps.. via the newsgroup... is much apprecaited,
> >
> > thanks
> > randelld
> >
> >
> >[/color]
>
> Try the following (untested) function:
>
> function stripSlashes(&$ var) {
> if (is_string($var )) {
> $var = stripslashes($v ar);
> } else { // assume it is an array
> foreach($var as $key => $value) {
> stripSlashes($v ar[$key]);
> }
> }
> }
>
> --
> Amir Khawaja.[/color]


Thanks for that... But I have already come up with that as a solution but
I'm sure there hsa got to be a more environmentally friendly method to go
easy on the system to do what I need to do... I'm sure something like
array_walk or array_map would do it in a single step...

Cheers
randelld