how to filter the all special characters in cakephp from an array

To filter all special characters from an array in CakePHP, you can use the array_map function along with a callback function. The callback function should use regular expressions to remove any special characters from each array element.

Here's an example of how you can achieve this:

function filterSpecialCharacters($value) {
    return preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $value);
}

$myArray = array('abc@123', 'def$456', 'ghi#789');
$filteredArray = array_map('filterSpecialCharacters', $myArray);

print_r($filteredArray);

In this example, the filterSpecialCharacters function is defined to remove any characters that are not letters, numbers, or hyphens from each array element using the preg_replace function.

The array_map function is then used to apply this callback function to each element of the $myArray. The resulting filtered array is stored in $filteredArray.

Finally, the print_r function is used to display the contents of the filtered array.

This code will output:

Array
(
    [0] => abc123
    [1] => def456
    [2] => ghi789
)

As you can see, all the special characters have been removed from the original array elements.