XSS Filter in Laravel Framework Part 1

So how can we do XSS Clean on all the inputs in Laravel? 

I have a solution for you, if you don’t have a library to write common methods you may need frequently then I ask you to create a new library Common in application/library (in case of Laravel 4, create a Common model in app/models). Put this two methods in your Common library/model:

/*

 * Method to strip tags globally.

 */

public static function globalXssClean()

{

    // Recursive cleaning for array [] inputs, not just strings.

    $sanitized = static::arrayStripTags(Input::get());

    Input::merge($sanitized);

}

public static function arrayStripTags($array)

{

    $result = array();

    foreach ($array as $key => $value) {

        // Don't allow tags on key either, maybe useful for dynamic forms.

        $key = strip_tags($key);

        // If the value is an array, we will just recurse back into the

        // function to keep stripping the tags out of the array,

        // otherwise we will set the stripped value.

        if (is_array($value)) {

            $result[$key] = static::arrayStripTags($value);

        } else {

            // I am using strip_tags(), you may use htmlentities(),

            // also I am doing trim() here, you may remove it, if you wish.

            $result[$key] = trim(strip_tags($value));

        }

    }

    return $result;

}