On 24/01/2008, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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); $clean=htmlentities($dirty); return $clean; } Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-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?