Comments on: PECL Input Filter

By: Christian WEnz

Christian WEnz — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:36:28 +0000

small correction: with recent versions of PEAR (and the extension), the following will work to install the filter extension (Unix/Linux/OSX only):
pecl install filter-beta

By: Dan Morris

Dan Morris — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:57:24 +0000

Hi, I wrote a php input filter a few months back that might be of use to you.. http://www.cyberai.com/inputfilter/

let me know what you think!
-dan

By: James Logdson

James Logdson — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:15:01 +0000

Told ya

By: Ben Ramsey

Ben Ramsey — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:45:10 +0000

Nevermind… it seems that I am behind, and 5.1.1 was just released as a regression correction. So, yeah. I guess the target is now 5.1.2.

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.1.1

By: Ben Ramsey

Ben Ramsey — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:38:25 +0000

James, what was just released was 5.1.0, not 5.1.1. As far as I know, it’s still in there.

By: James Logsdon

James Logsdon — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:11:13 +0000

Well, looks like it won’t be in 5.1.1 as it was just released without PECL Input Filter (according to the changelogs at least). Perhaps in 5.1.2.

By: Ben Ramsey

Ben Ramsey — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:17:34 +0000

Jacques, I’m actually looking into adding it into PEAR::PHP_Compat, which will provide the functionality to the entire 4.x and 5.0.x branches. That said, there’s no reason one couldn’t use the pear installer to install it in 4.x or 5.0.x:

pear install filter

By: Jacques Marneweck

Jacques Marneweck — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:48:42 +0000

Interesting. It could be more useful it backported to 4.4.X and 5.0.X, seeing that they are considering adding it to 5.1.1 which is supposed to be a maintenance release.

By: Ben Ramsey

Ben Ramsey — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:41:04 +0000

Matthew, take a look at my second code example. You’re not restricted to superglobals only. You can use filter_data() to filter any script variables—or you can just pass it a value and not a variable at all.

By: Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Matthew Weier O'Phinney — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:38:27 +0000

The extension definitely has merit. However, one thing I do not like about it is the fact that it will only filter data from a superglobal. What if I want to filter data I have acquired from other sources—a database queue, a serialized file, a SOAP request? There should be a way to pass input_get() just a value.