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Filters

PHP filters allow developers to validate and sanitize user input. There are three types of filters: validate filters that check data against rules, sanitize filters that clean data by removing harmful characters, and custom filters for specific needs. Filters help ensure data integrity, enhance security, and improve reliability. Common validate filters check emails, URLs, and numbers, while sanitize filters remove tags and characters from strings, emails, URLs, and numbers. Developers can also define custom validation logic and filter options.

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Filters

PHP filters allow developers to validate and sanitize user input. There are three types of filters: validate filters that check data against rules, sanitize filters that clean data by removing harmful characters, and custom filters for specific needs. Filters help ensure data integrity, enhance security, and improve reliability. Common validate filters check emails, URLs, and numbers, while sanitize filters remove tags and characters from strings, emails, URLs, and numbers. Developers can also define custom validation logic and filter options.

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PHP Filters

Topics to be covered...
• Introduction
• Types of Filters
• Examples
Introduction
• PHP filters are an essential part of data Validation and Sanitization in web development

• Allow you to validate and sanitize user input

• Ensuring that the data entered by users is safe and conforms to the expected format

• Offer a systematic way to handle data validation and cleansing tasks

• Reducing the risk of security vulnerabilities

• Improving the overall quality of your application


Types of Filters
• Validate Filters: These filters validate data against specific rules, such as email
addresses, URLs, and numeric values.

• Sanitize Filters: Sanitization filters clean and sanitize data, removing harmful or
unexpected characters.

• Custom Filters: You can create custom filters to meet specific validation or
sanitization requirements.
Validate Filters

• FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL: Validates an email address

• FILTER_VALIDATE_URL: Validates a URL

• FILTER_VALIDATE_INT: Validates an integer

• FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT: Validates a floating-point number


...
Sanitize Filters

• FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING: Removes tags and extraneous characters from a string

• FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL: Removes illegal characters from an email address

• FILTER_SANITIZE_URL: Removes illegal characters from a URL

• FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT: Removes all characters except digits from a string


....
Examples

Validation Filter Example

$email = "[email protected]";
if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
echo "Valid email address.";
} else {
echo "Invalid email address.";
}
Examples

Sanitize Filter Example

$userInput = "<p>Hello, <b>World</b>!</p>";


$cleanedInput = filter_var($userInput, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
echo $cleanedInput;
Examples
Custom Filter Example

function validatePhoneNumber($phoneNumber) {
// Implement your validation logic here
return (bool) preg_match("/^\d{10}$/", $phoneNumber);
}

$phoneNumber = "1234567890";

if (filter_var($phoneNumber, FILTER_CALLBACK, ['options' => 'validatePhoneNumber'])) {


echo "Valid phone number.";
} else {
echo "Invalid phone number.";
}
Filter Options
You can use filter options to customize the behavior of PHP filters. Options are often provided as
an associative array in the filter_var() function.

$data = "42";
$options = [
'options' => [
'min_range' => 1,
'max_range' => 100,
],
];

if (filter_var($data, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, $options) !== false) {


echo "Valid integer between 1 and 100.";
} else {
echo "Invalid integer.";
}
Conclusion
• PHP filters are essential for validating and sanitizing data in PHP applications

• They help ensure data integrity, enhance security, and improve the overall reliability of your code

• By using built-in filters and creating custom ones when needed, you can effectively handle user input
and protect your application from potential vulnerabilities

• Incorporating PHP filters into your projects is a best practice for developing robust and secure web
applications
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