Filtering Data with PHP
One of the greatest strengths of PHP is its ease of use. Unfortunately this same benifit has worked against PHP as many new coders have forgotten any security measures or lack the expertise to create a class to validate their variables from end users. PHP provides an extension to help with this process. There are many validation classes out there, some better than others, with an equal number of methods for doing the same task. The PHP filter extension has many of the functions needed for checking many types of user input. Handled locally this provides a standard method of filtering data. This makes for easier to read code as we will all be using the same functions rather than having to create our own. This will bring PHP security to fore with programmers able to easily implement simple, yet robust, filtering of data. Never again do we need to see code like this below.
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KattyBlackyard on June 15th, 2009
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Bodyc on June 23rd, 2009
Hi, Not sure that this is true:), but thanks for a post.
Thanks
AnnaHopn on June 24th, 2009
Hi,
Amazing! Not clear for me, how offen you updating your netcane.com.
AnnaHopn
Yasir Haleem on June 26th, 2009
@KattyBlackyard Thanks for subscribing
Yasir Haleem on June 26th, 2009
@AnnaHopen Sorry AnnaHopn i am too much busy in Client projects could’t get time to update my blog or website m free now will post great stuff in couple of days.