Re: PHP form Creates Blank DB entries

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:46:57AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:46:57 -0500
> From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
> To: Jeff <jam(at)zoidtechnologies(dot)com>
> Cc: Frank Bax <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP form Creates Blank DB entries
> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff <jam(at)zoidtechnologies(dot)com>,
> Frank Bax <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 18:22:59 -0400,
> Jeff <jam(at)zoidtechnologies(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > also, I would suggest running each of the variables through a function that
> > strips out html tags (since you don't really care about allowing them in
> > this case, right?).. you can do that with strip_tags.. see
> > http://php.net/strip_tags
>
> Wouldn't it be better to replace <, >, " and & with &lt;, &gt;, &quot; and
> &amp;, resprectively since those characters could legitimately appear
> in at least some of those strings?

yes, preparestring handles not only the call to strip_tags, but a call to
htmlentities as well, which covers the above. I did not indicate this fact
clearly in my email-- I apologize for being misleading.

if I've missed anything, please let me know.. I think I have all the bases
covered, but I'm willing to make changes if there is some glaring hole (or
even a not-so-glaring one) I have missed :)

you can check the eros tarball, common.php, the function is called
preparestring.

regards,
J
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