JRequest::getString

Fetches and returns a given filtered variable. The string filter deletes 'bad' HTML code, if not overridden by the mask.

This is currently only a proxy function for getVar(). See getVar() for more in-depth documentation on the parameters.

Signature

public function getString(string
        $name,
            [string
        $default = '',
            [string
        $hash = 'default',
            [integer
        $mask = 0]]] )

Parameters

$name: Variable name
$default: Default value if the variable does not exist
$hash: Where the var should come from (POST, GET, FILES, COOKIE, METHOD)
$mask: Filter mask for the variable

Returns

string: Requested variable