Safest way

[Surrix]

Currently I have a few forums that need to be submitted what is the safest way to get that data into php. Right now I have it all as POSTS and I know I can use $_POST['name'] to get that data but is that the safest way?

[CeleronXT]

Currently I have a few forums that need to be submitted what is the safest way to get that data into php. Right now I have it all as POSTS and I know I can use $_POST['name'] to get that data but is that the safest way?If you're storing it in mySQL, run it through mysql_escape_string() or addlashes() before insertion, and that should be all you need.

[equin0x]

addlashes()

addslashes() is the correctly spelled name for this function, just correcting since you'd get a pretty funny looking error if you used addlashes() ;)

[Raz Meister]

Currently I have a few forums that need to be submitted what is the safest way to get that data into php. Right now I have it all as POSTS and I know I can use $_POST['name'] to get that data but is that the safest way?
Yes, that is the prefered method, and works even if register_globals is set to off.

However, that global variable is not available in older versions of PHP.