[Phpwm] escape hell!

[Phil Beynon]

> > I have an array  $_arr of  41 elements and about 500 rows, including  
> > apostrophes (and other stuff probably!) in some strings. I need to  
> > escape the apostrophes and have tried both the following with 
> no success:
> >
> > $_arr = str_replace(" ' "," \' ",$_arr);
> >
> > and
> >
> > foreach ($_arr as $_arr2){
> >                         foreach ($_arr2 as $var){$var =  
> > addslashes($var);}
> >                     }
> > can anyone help out?
> > thanks, alan dunn
> 
> When you use foreach, it operates on a copy of the array, not on 
> the array  
> itself.
> 
> Your code would need to be changed to:
> foreach($arr as $key=>$arr2) {
>    foreach($arr2 as $key2=>$var) {
>      $arr[$key][$key2]=addslashes($var);
>    }
> }
> 
> Greg
> 

Depends what the array is part of, but if its going to a database or something then why not use htmlentities() to replace the apostrophes etc, that should make it safe enough.

Regards,

Phil