Is it possible to "symlink" a function in PHP easily - or alias the name to something else?
<p>For example, I hate typing things like:</p>

<pre><code>$x = mysql_escape_string(stripslashes($_GET['x']));
</code></pre>

<p>Is there a way to alias those two functions in init.php or something without writing a separate function that takes one argument and returns that argument with those functions applied to it?</p>

<p>My C/C++ is not very good, but I think this is sort of like #typedef but for functions?</p>
