I was able to get the return to work but not the pass in the reference.  One
last question, what if I want to have each item on a separate line like:

function cleaner($var)
{
trim($var);
strip_tags($var);
ucfirst($var);
addslashes($var);
str_replace ("$","",$var);
}

$var = "abc's";
echo $var;

How would I return the results here, I tried various different ways none of
them worked?



On 6/29/06, Chris <dmagick@[...].com>  wrote:
> 
>  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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> 



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