Thanks John, I'm not familiar with the first function, but it sounds like any easy way to accomplish basic validation. Btw, any ideas why my code snippet didn't work? I still have some "badWords' to check for, and eregi doesn't seem to work with textarea.
Tia, Andre On Tuesday 28 May 2002 06:50 pm, you wrote: > Why not just use htmlentities() and striptags() on the user input? I > prefer to just use htmlentities() and that's it. Any code the user tries > to type in is just converted to html codes and ends up being displayed > in the browser exactly as they typed it. None of their code is evaluated > though. > > ---John Holmes... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andre Dubuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:37 PM > > To: Miguel Cruz > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PHP] 'ucfirst' function for text area strings? > > > > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 02:19 pm, you wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Andre Dubuc wrote: > > > > Is there a way to get a function similar to 'ucfirst' to work with > > the > > > > > first letters of a set of strings in textarea strings? > > > > > > > > ****************************************************** > > > > Inputted strings: > > > > > > > > "hi. i hope there is one. any ideas?" > > > > > > > > Should appear: > > > > "Hi. I hope there is one. Any ideas?" > > > > > > > > ****************************************************** > > > > > > > > Would it be possible to do a 'foreach' 'ucfirst' type of statement > > > > while > > > > > > reading a string and breaking it apart at punctuation marks? > > > > > > What are you going to do about abbreviations? > > > > > > "The General Electric Corp. was represented at the meeting." > > > > > > miguel > > > > Hi Miguel, > > > > Well, I've discovered that using 'textarea' is a real pain. The usual > > validation checks don't work since there can be more than one string > > in > > > whatever has been typed there. My nifty > > 'checkHtmlCommandsRottenwordsAndOther > > Garbage' sort of looks at whatever is in the text area and says, 'Uh, > > huh > > > -- > > right. . . . Passed' no matter what I do. I've tried ereg, eregi, > > preg_match_all, explode, but the effect is the same. > > > > Unfortunately, this 'textarea' is one area on the site where the user > > can > > > input the most. Therefore, it's the most vulnerable. So, how do others > > validate 'textarea' inputs? . . . Man, this is annoying! > > > > I've tried the 'foreach' but it chokes on the $_SESSION['rap'] , so I > > tried > > $rap = $_SESSION['rap']; just to make things easier. To be honest, at > > this > > > point, I'd be happy to just validate that no 'evildoers' stuff has > > been typed into the 'textarea'. But as it stands now, it's pretty well > > open. > > So, abbreviations -- that's not really an issue at this point-- I only > > wanted > > the first letter of each sentence capitalized. If the user wants > > his/her > > > aBbrEvatIoNs looking ugly -- that's fine by me. Perhaps, if I can get > > the > > > basic validations done, I'll tackle the interior stuff as well. > > > > Any ideas on how to handle textarea inputs? I'd really apprecaite some > > advice > > on how to proceed at this point. > > > > Btw here's what I've tried before, and it works everywhere else except > > for > > > textarea's: > > ************************************************************************ > ** > > > ****************************** > > // 'rap' is the textarea input > > > > $_SESSION['rap'] = $_POST['rap']; > > $rap = $_SESSION['rap'] > > > > if > > (eregi("<([^>]|\n)*>|/<SCRIPT.*?<\/SCRIPT>/ims|onClick|onLoad|onDblClick > > > onDragStart|onKeyDown|onKeyPress|onKeyUp|onMouseDown|onMouseMove| > > onMouseOut|MouseOver|SelectStart|Blur|Focus|Scroll|onMouseOver|onSelectS > ta > > > rt|onBlur| > > onFocus|Scroll|SCRIPT|script|Select|Unload|Change||DELETE|rm|mkdir|COPY| > > > CREATE|UPDATE|WHERE|AS|FROM|POST|INSERT|INTO|while", $rap)); > > {header("location:out.php");} > > > > $rap = ucfirst($rap); > > > > // set it back to session variable > > $_SESSION['rap] = $rap; > > ************************************************************************ > ** > > > ******************************* > > > > > > Tia, Andre > > > > > > - - > > Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. > > Remember in your prayers the Holy Souls in Purgatory. > > > > May God bless you abundantly in His love! > > For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet: > > http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember in your prayers the Holy Souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly in His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet: http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
