benc11@[...].com wrote:
>  I am trying to create a function to clean up variables that are user
>  inputted from a form.  I am not getting this script to work.  Can anyone
>  help.
>  
>  ---Start Script---
>  function cleaner($var)
>  {
>  trim(strip_tags(ucfirst(addslashes($var))));
>  }
>  
>  $var = "abc's";
>  
>  echo $var;


You need to return the value from the function:

return trim(strip_tags(.....)

or pass in a reference:

function cleaner (&$var)


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