I am aware of array_walk() and array_map(). However when using the former like so (on an old project) it failed
array_walk()
array_map()
array_walk($_POST,
PHP 7.4 style:
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world"); array_map(fn($string) => mysqli_real_escape_string($string, $link), $_POST);