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sanitize php strings

Simple function to help you sanitizing the php string. This function will remove any non alphanumeric character.

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function sanitize($string)
{
return preg_replace("/[^[:alnum:]]/ui", '', $string);
}

example:

1 2	echo sanitize('café'); /* => café <em>/ echo sanitize('\|c/(!=)a f é'); /</em> => café */