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PHP Filter Introduction

This PHP filters is used to validate and filter data coming from insecure sources, like user input.

Installation

The filter functions are part of the PHP core. There is no installation needed to use these functions.

PHP Filter Functions

PHP: indicates the earliest version of PHP that supports the function.

Function

Description

PHP

filter_has_var()

Checks if a variable of a specified input type exist
 

5

filter_id()

Returns the ID number of a specified filter
 

5

filter_input()

Get input from outside the script and filter it
 

5

filter_input_array()

Get multiple inputs from outside the script and filters them
 

5

filter_list()

Returns an array of all supported filters
 

5

filter_var_array()

Get multiple variables and filter them
 

5

filter_var()

Get a variable and filter it
 

5

PHP Filters

ID Name

Description

FILTER_CALLBACK

Call a user-defined function to filter data
 

FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING

Strip tags, optionally strip or encode special characters
 

FILTER_SANITIZE_STRIPPED

Alias of "string" filter
 

FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED

URL-encode string, optionally strip or encode special characters
 

FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS

HTML-escape '"<>& and characters with ASCII value less than 32
 

FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL

Remove all characters, except letters, digits and !#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~@.[]
 

FILTER_SANITIZE_URL

Remove all characters, except letters, digits and $-_.+!*'(),{}|\\^~[]`<>#%";/?:@&=
 

FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT

Remove all characters, except digits and +-

FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT

Remove all characters, except digits, +- and optionally .,eE
 

FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES

Apply addslashes()
 

FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW

Do nothing, optionally strip or encode special characters

FILTER_VALIDATE_INT

Validate value as integer, optionally from the specified range
 

FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN

Return TRUE for "1", "true", "on" and "yes", FALSE for "0", "false", "off", "no", and "", NULL otherwise
 

FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT

Validate value as float
 

FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP

Validate value against regexp, a Perl-compatible regular expression
 

FILTER_VALIDATE_URL

Validate value as URL, optionally with required components
 

FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL

Validate value as e-mail
 

FILTER_VALIDATE_IP

Validate value as IP address, optionally only IPv4 or IPv6 or not from private or reserved ranges
 

 





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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 April 2008 )
 
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