How to screen $_POST data before inserting into database?

[eluser]Taff[/eluser]
Hey Tony,
check out the validation class.

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...ation.html

That should be what you need. Scroll down to Prepping data where you will see

$rules['username'] = "trim|required|min_length[5]|max_length[12]|xss_clean";
$rules['password'] = "trim|required|matches[passconf]|md5";
$rules['passconf'] = "trim|required";
$rules['email'] = "trim|required|valid_email";

which will give you a basic idea of how it works.

Taff