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Remove special and unwanted characters - El Forum - 08-10-2008

[eluser]Yash[/eluser]
Hi,

I'm trying to enter a input value into url segment. Now problem is user can input any character so I want to remove all not allowed characters like ' " {[} etc...

I think I'm missing something.

Any thought?

Thank you


Remove special and unwanted characters - El Forum - 08-10-2008

[eluser]ywftdg[/eluser]
What if you ran form validation instead, to restrict what they entered? That way no special characters got entered in the first place.

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/validation.html