[Dean C]

Ok... well with vB3 you might as well use their globalize function as it does checks on other things suchs as arrays, integers, files. As well as this it also deals with the magic quotes problem so it's standard on any vBulletin installation to use it :

PHP Code:

globalize($_POST, array('posthash' => STR_NOHTML, 'poststarttime' => INT, 'stickunstick' => INT, 'openclose' => INT)); 


Straight from editpost.php

The first arguement to the function is either $_POST or $_REQUEST then you pass an array of $_POST/$_REQUEST values you want to validate/strip etc. If you take a look at the function in (I think) functions.php you'll see what it can validate