PHP Form Handling...??

[Hobbes]

what is an appropriate way to handle forms from one page to the next?

As with perl you had to have a function that stripped out unwanted characters that could wreak havoc on a system...

 

[conkermaniac]

Are you looking for a function that strips out HTMLcharacters? You could remove HTML tags using the htmlspecialchars() function.

 

[Cagez]

Useful with forms:

htmlspecialchars
nl2br
addslashes
stripslashes
ltrim / trim / rtrim