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Runtime Configurations
The behavior of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini:

Name Description Default Changeab

filter.default Filter all $_GET, $_POST, "unsafe_raw" PHP_INI_P

$_COOKIE, $_REQUEST and
$_SERVER data by this filter.
Accepts the name of the filter you
like to use by default. See the filter
list for the list of the filter names

filter.default_flags Default flags to apply when the NULL PHP_INI_P

default filter is set. This is set to
FILTER_FLAG_NO_ENCODE_QUOTES
by default for backwards
compatibility reasons

PHP 5 Filter Functions

Function Description

filter_has_var() Checks if a variable of a specified input

type exist

filter_id() Returns the filter ID of a specified filter

name

filter_input() Gets an external variable (e.g. from

form input) and optionally filters it

filter_input_array() Gets external variables (e.g. from form

input) and optionally filters them

filter_list() Returns a list of all supported filters

filter_var_array() Gets multiple variables and filter them

filter_var() Filters a variable with a specified filter

PHP 5 Predefined Filter Constants

Constant ID Description
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FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN 258 Validates a boolean

FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL 274 Validates an e-mail

address

FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT 259 Validates a float

FILTER_VALIDATE_INT 257 Validates an integer

FILTER_VALIDATE_IP 275 Validates an IP address

FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP 272 Validates a regular

expression

FILTER_VALIDATE_URL 273 Validates a URL

FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL 517 Removes all illegal

characters from an e-mail
address

FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED 514 Removes/Encodes special

characters

FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES 521 Apply addslashes()

FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT 520 Remove all characters,

except digits, +- and
optionally .,eE

FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT 519 Removes all characters

except digits and + -

FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS 515 Removes special

characters

FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS

FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING 513 Removes tags/special

characters from a string

FILTER_SANITIZE_STRIPPED 513 Alias of

FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING

FILTER_SANITIZE_URL 518 Removes all illegal

character from s URL

FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW 516 Do nothing, optionally

strip/encode special
characters

FILTER_CALLBACK 1024 Call a user-defined

function to filter data

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