/**
* Protect a array of strings from possible hacker (i.e. escape possible harmfull chars)
* (this has been moved from PHPDS_query)
* @version 1.1
* @date 20111010 (v1.1) (greg) added "quote" parameter
* @author greg
* @param $a array, the strings to protect
* @param $quote string, the quotes to add to each non-numerical scalar value
* @return array, the same string but safe
*/
public function protectArray(array $a, $quote = '')
{
foreach ($a as $index => $value) {
$v = null;
if (is_array($value)) {
$v = $this->protectArray($value);
}
if (is_scalar($value)) {
$v = $this->connector->protect($value);
if (!is_numeric($v) && $quote) {
$v = $quote . $v . $quote;
}
}
if (!empty($v)) {
$a[$index] = $v;
}
}
return $a;
}
