How to prevent removal of special characters like '/' from user input?

Question

A total newbie question....

I am developing a Joomla template and in this I want to make provision to load the assets (Images, JavaScript and CSS) from a remote location or locally.

I am using the following code for the same:

<?php

class MyclassName {

function CDNPath(){
return $this->getParam("cdn-path","templates/myTemplate/cdn");
}

}
?>

Now in this I want to call the value for $cdn_path via user-input. I am able to get the path but it is removing the '/' marks. Please see the example below:

The correct path to CDN is http://mydomain.com/cdn

It is suppose to read as:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/joomla/http://mydomain.com/cdn/css/template.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

whereas it is reading as:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/joomla/http:mydomain.comcdn/css/template.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

The breakup for this joomla is the root directory of joomla and http://mydomain.com/cdn/ is the user input

Two challenges:

1. it is removing all the '/' characters from the user-input.

2. It is adding the Joomla Root 'joomla' to the begining of the path.

Am I coding wrong? If yes then what is the correct syntax.

Please feel free to suggest any new approach if you feel will be better than this.

Kindly help.

Answer 1

If you are getting the input via post (im not sure how you are taking input from user. ) so you can try something like this to add slashes :

<?php
//create array to temporarily grab variables
$input_arr = array();
//grabs the $_POST variables and adds slashes
foreach ($_POST as $key => $input_arr) {
$_POST[$key] = addslashes($input_arr);
}
?> 

if its array..