Re: [PHP] prevent modifying querystring

2003-06-11 Thread Tom Rogers
Hi, Thursday, June 12, 2003, 12:25:05 AM, you wrote: AH> for example i have form with a dropdown selection as shown below. AH> AH> AH> 1 AH> 2 AH> 3 AH> 4 AH> 5 AH> AH> AH> Just say I have a function to generate form fields based on the total variable from above... so AH> function gen

Re: [PHP] prevent modifying querystring

2003-06-11 Thread Chris Hayes
At 16:43 11-6-03, you wrote: Thanks for your recommendations, what if they use page.php?$_POST[$total]? $_POST is made by PHP and you can rely on it to be safe for such tricks, especially because your trick will not even work with normal arrays. instead of $toal?? wouldn't the outcome be the sam

Re: [PHP] prevent modifying querystring

2003-06-11 Thread Awlad Hussain
ginal Message - From: "Chris Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] prevent modifying querystring > 1st step: read out form results from $_POST['total'] (possible since PHP > 4.10),

Re: [PHP] prevent modifying querystring

2003-06-11 Thread Chris Hayes
1st step: read out form results from $_POST['total'] (possible since PHP 4.10), not from $total. Variables added to the url will not be in the $_POST array but in $_GET. When reading the form result, make sure the referering page is from your own site, or else they can simply make their own fo

[PHP] prevent modifying querystring

2003-06-11 Thread Awlad Hussain
for example i have form with a dropdown selection as shown below. 1 2 3 4 5 Just say I have a function to generate form fields based on the total variable from above... so function generate($total){ for ($total = 1; $i <= $total; $i++) { print "\n"; } } how do you prevent someone