Is therea better way to in Dealing with forms in P

Question

I hate working with forms in PHP has always given me problems. As in formatting; handling punctuation inside a form input, manipulating strings for database insertions and so on. I also don't like that the form wizard that does everything for you - but I still would like a high level of customization. Help?

Answer 1

Use PHP framework like Zend. It has internal form handling solution.

Answer 2

Somebody suggested PDO (PHP Data Objects) to me : http://php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php . I have yet to check it out, but looks promising.