Question

For example, I hate typing things like:

$x = mysql_escape_string(stripslashes($_GET['x'])); 

Is there a way to alias those two functions in init.php or something without writing a separate function that takes one argument and returns that argument with those functions applied to it?

My C/C++ is not very good, but I think this is sort of like #typedef but for functions?

Answer 1

This should do the trick :

// Macros $mes = 'mysql_escape_string'; $ss = 'stripslashes';  // Using your macros $x = $mes($ss($_GET['x'])); 

Though I don’t recommend coding like this at all.

I’m just answering the question since you said you didn’t want to create any new function and get a ‘#define’-like functionality.