https://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=9351&p=59916#p59916
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Informpro
Mon 24 Nov, 2014 12:55

Re: More Questions About Sanitizing?
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If that's related to IP (or phpBB3), you should use request_var.

It uses the second argument's type to coerce the value. For example, `request_var('foo', 0)` will always return an integer, because "0" is an integer


