Good people,
I have a small question:

suppose I have a string with native PHP or user defined functions names separated with a known separator, e.g.
$myString = "strip_tags|trim|myFunction";

And I want to apply each function name to some other data e.g.
$cleanData = strip_tags(trim(myFunction($dirtyData)));

How would I go about it? It has been done in CodeIgniter form validation library but for the life of me I can't see how to reverse engineer it.