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In message <76c9af0f52.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>
          Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

<snip>

> Handling user-input safely is one of the most important things to learn when
> using PHP.  Get to know the functions htmlspecialchars, urlencode and
> addslashes (or the database-specific equivalent) and use them thoroughly.
> Failing to treat user-input carefully is what's behind many of the security
> holes which have allowed web sites to be hacked.

Interestingly, my O'Reilly "PHP in a Nutshell" book doesn't mention 
any of those.

<snip>


-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan@adamshome.org.uk
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

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      Re: PHP query Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-09-08 22:09 +0100
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