Remove all array elements except what I want?

Question

I have controller that takes post parameters from HTML form, it will then send them to model that will insert the array into Cassandra database.

It is SQLInjection proof

Answer 1

In case you’re dealing with associative arrays and you don’t want to use array_intersect_key() for any reason, you can also do a simpler approach of manually build a new array using the values you want from the old one.

$post = array(
    'parent_id' => 1,
    'type' => "post",
    'title' => "Post title",
    'body' => "Post body",
    'tags' => "Post tags",
    'malicious' => "Robert'); DROP TABLE students;--"
);
$good = array(
    'parent_id' => $post['parent_id'],
    'type' => $post['type'],
    'title' => $post['title'],
    'body' => $post['body'],
    'tags' => $post['tags']
);