Ummmm... you could write a fuction like
function CheckInputAgainstRE( $val, $re )
{
if ( ! ereg( $re, $val ) )
{
( ... some kind of code that writes out an error message and dies
... )
}
return $val;
}
and then a series of functions like
function CheckInt( $val )
{
return (integer)CheckInputAgainstRE( $val, "^-?[0-9]+$" );
}
which you could then use as your input protection....
Would that help?
Brian
At 23:55 12/07/2001 +0000, Dr. Evil wrote:
>PHP is a great language. It makes it fast and easy to create web
>pages. However, one feature which is critical for doing rock-solid
>stable websites is strong typing. The reason for this is that you're
>dealing with untrusted user input. Strong typing helps because if you
>are expecting an INT, and the user gave you something else, and you
>made a mistake in your input checking, the program will fail when you
>attempt to assign the value to the strongly-type INT variable. This
>is a good thing when you are dealing with money, or other contexts
>where you need very solid code.
>
>First, is there a plan to introduce a strong typing option, like
>perl's strict mode?
>
>Second, is there a way to get something equivalent to strong typing
>using the class system?
>
>Thanks
>
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