Class Sanitize
Data Sanitization.
Removal of alphanumeric characters, SQL-safe slash-added strings, HTML-friendly strings, and all of the above on arrays.
Copyright: Copyright 2005-2012, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
License: License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
Location: Cake/Utility/Sanitize.php
Method Summary
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clean() public static
Sanitizes given array or value for safe input. Use the options to specify the connection to use, and what filters should be applied (with a boolean value). Valid filters:
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escape() public static
Makes a string SQL-safe. -
html() public static
Returns given string safe for display as HTML. Renders entities. -
paranoid() public static
Removes any non-alphanumeric characters. -
stripAll() public static
Strips extra whitespace, images, scripts and stylesheets from output -
stripImages() public static
Strips image tags from output -
stripScripts() public static
Strips scripts and stylesheets from output -
stripTags() public static
Strips the specified tags from output. First parameter is string from where to remove tags. All subsequent parameters are tags.
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stripWhitespace() public static
Strips extra whitespace from output
Method Detail
clean() public static ¶
clean( string|array $data , string|array $options = array() )
Sanitizes given array or value for safe input. Use the options to specify the connection to use, and what filters should be applied (with a boolean value). Valid filters:
- odd_spaces - removes any non space whitespace characters
- encode - Encode any html entities. Encode must be true for the
remove_htmlto work. - dollar - Escape
$with\$ - carriage - Remove
\r - unicode -
- escape - Should the string be SQL escaped.
- backslash -
- remove_html - Strip HTML with strip_tags.
encodemust be true for this option to work.
Parameters
- string|array $data
- Data to sanitize
- string|array $options optional array()
- If string, DB connection being used, otherwise set of options
Returns
Sanitized data
escape() public static ¶
escape( string $string , string $connection = 'default' )
Makes a string SQL-safe.
Parameters
- string $string
- String to sanitize
- string $connection optional 'default'
- Database connection being used
Returns
SQL safe string
html() public static ¶
html( string $string , array $options = array() )
Returns given string safe for display as HTML. Renders entities.
strip_tags() does not validating HTML syntax or structure, so it might strip whole passages with broken HTML.
Options:
- remove (boolean) if true strips all HTML tags before encoding
- charset (string) the charset used to encode the string
- quotes (int) see http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php
- double (boolean) doube encode html entities
Parameters
- string $string
- String from where to strip tags
- array $options optional array()
- Array of options to use.
Returns
Sanitized string
paranoid() public static ¶
paranoid( string $string , array $allowed = array() )
Removes any non-alphanumeric characters.
Parameters
- string $string
- String to sanitize
- array $allowed optional array()
- An array of additional characters that are not to be removed.
Returns
Sanitized string
stripAll() public static ¶
stripAll( string $str )
Strips extra whitespace, images, scripts and stylesheets from output
Parameters
- string $str
- String to sanitize
Returns
sanitized string
stripImages() public static ¶
stripImages( string $str )
Strips image tags from output
Parameters
- string $str
- String to sanitize
Returns
Sting with images stripped.
stripScripts() public static ¶
stripScripts( string $str )
Strips scripts and stylesheets from output
Parameters
- string $str
- String to sanitize
Returns
String with