On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Rosie Williams
<rosiemariewilliams@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I am a newbie to PHP. I have several php forms which were originally on separate pages now included in the one page. Each form had the following code in it:
> function mysql_fix_string($string){ if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) $string = stripslashes($string); return mysql_real_escape_string($string);}
> function mysql_entities_fix_string($string){ return htmlentities(mysql_fix_string($string));}
> However I am only able to include it in one of the forms on the new page with multiple scripts due to the fatal error that I can only declare the function once. So for testing I have commented these lines out of the other scripts. I need to know what the security implications of this are? Do the scripts that do not contain these lines run without it or is it included automatically every time the database is accessed regardless of which script is accessing it?
> If not how do I deal with it?
> thanks in advanceRosie
Hi, Rosie, welcome!
This is something you will likely encounter again, so it is good to
learn it now.
You can put the two functions into another php file, and include that
file in your main script using include_once or require_once (there is
a difference that you might want to read up on at some point). If you
include this before you start your form processing, the functions will
be available to you at the point you need them. You only need do this
once in the php script where you will be using them, so you can safely
delete all the other occurances of the function definitions.
The nice part is, really, that you can use that same include file in
other projects as you go along, saving retyping the code. This is
something that you may want to think about for other such functions as
well. Modularity and code reuse are one of the big ways to achieving
more efficiency in your work.
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.include-once.php
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.require-once.php
(cf. http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.require.php to learn how the
"require" differs from the "include")
Best of luck,
Tamara
aka tamouse__
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