PHP's new input_filter does not read $_GET or $_POST arrays

Question

In PHP 5.2 there was a nice security function added called \"input_filter\", so instead of saying:

$name = $_GET[\'name\'];

you can now say

Answer 1

You could manually force it to read the arrays again by using filter_var and filter_var_array

$name = filter_var ( $_GET['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING );