Newbie Question

[Anon]

Hello,

Ok, I am working with a search. What do I do if a user types ?>:"{+^{%#Cat#@%%Dog#@&.} Is there a function that will pull out the garbage? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Donnie

[cordex]

an ereg_replace() (or preg_replace) would do nicely, I think.

[donnierivera]

I am playing with ereg_replace(). However, is there a way to lop threw all the garbage, so I don't have to do this?

$queryCleanUp=ereg_replace("!", "", $query);
$queryCleanUp=ereg_replace("@", "", $queryCleanUp);
and so on....

$queryWords=split(" ", $queryCleanUp);
For any char that someone could enter. Or is there another way I could go with this that I am not seeing. Thanks…

Donnie

[cordex]

$str = eregi_replace("[^{[:alnum:]]","",$str);}