personal-website/docs/common/utils.php

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PHP

<?php
/**
* Sanitize a given input string to be safe to display and process.
*/
function sanitize_input($data) {
// Remove unnecessary whitespace characters
$data = trim($data);
// Remove backslashes
$data = stripslashes($data);
// Escape all special characters to HTML entities
$data = htmlspecialchars($data);
return $data;
}
?>