[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Brad.loo

Your are right, globalize is a nice little function. Heres a little overview of everything it dose.

Use INT and globalize will run this on the $var

PHP Code:

intval($var); 


If you use STR

PHP Code:

trim($var); 


If you use STR_NOHTML

PHP Code:

htmlspecialchars_uni(trim($var)); 


You can also use FILE, which takes $_FILES['$var'] and makes it $array['$var']

Nice summary of the things globalize can do.

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