On Thu, January 24, 2008 12:03 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 24/01/2008, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It is NOT safe from, say, XSS attack if $evilString contains an XSS >> snippet and you re-display it on your site. >> >> In other words, you should still filter the INPUT somewhere; But you >> are escaping the output to MySQL so that it is not going to execute >> arbitrary SQL on your DB server. > > After I pull the info out of the database, before it goes to the > webbrowser, it goes through this: > > function clean_html ($dirty) { > $dirty=strip_tags($dirty); The strip_tags should probably have been done before it ever went into the database, as part of INPUT FILTERING rather than escaping output... > $clean=htmlentities($dirty); > return $clean; > } > > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > ×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-×?-× -ס-×¢-×£-פ-×¥-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php