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[nycphp-talk] escaping

Ben Sgro ben at projectskyline.com
Wed Jan 23 16:09:25 EST 2008


what about http://myViagra.com?

You'll probably need a robust solution for managing all the crap people 
can stick into your blog comment space.
Is it a home made blog? (Your own code?) or an off the shelf thing?

- Ben

Susan Shemin wrote:
> Is this "escaping" that you guys have been talking about what you use 
> to filter acceptable data into textbox form?
>  
> If so, can you explain exactly what is being used (e.g., htmlentities) 
> and how to use it?
>  
> Actually I need to filter out nonpermitted characters since someone 
> put a Viagra advertisement into the php blog I created!  (Caught it 
> quite quickly and deleted the entry from the database.)  I'd like to 
> exclude "www." from being entered into a form.
>  
> Susan
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