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PHP Security Leading Practice
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Revision as of 13:24, 17 October 2007 by EoinKeary (talk | contribs) (New page: ===Global Variables=== One does not need to explicitly create "global variables" this is done via the php.ini file by setting the "register_globals" function on. Appending global variable...)
Global Variables
One does not need to explicitly create "global variables" this is done via the php.ini file by setting the "register_globals" function on. Appending global variables to the URL may be a way to circumvent authentication.
Error handling
If possible check if one has turned off error reporting via php.ini and if "error_reporting" off.
File Manipulation
Good Things to Use
strip_tags(): Removes any HTML from a String nl2br(): Converts new line characters to HTML break "br" htmlspecialchars():
