CodeIgniter helpful hints

[eluser]Lone[/eluser]
Heres a new one for helping with $_POST data as I wanted an easy to use function that gets all post data and xss_cleans it for me without setting the config variable required to do this.

Best used on a page that is receiving form data eg. 'do_add_item'

Extend the Input library with the following function:

Code:

function post_all() {
        $post = array();
        foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
            if (is_array($value)) {
                $post[$key] = array();
                foreach ($value as $arrayKey => $arrayValue) {
                    $post[$key][$arrayKey] = $this->xss_clean($arrayValue);
                }
            } else {
                $post[$key] = $this->xss_clean($value);
            }
        }
        return $post;
    }

To use in a controller etc. just use...

Code:

$post = $this->input->post_all();

$someVar = $post['name'];

Let me know what you think of this method please if there is something wrong/awesome about it