Re: sanitizing get vars

From: Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:28:11 +0000
Subject: Re: sanitizing get vars
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Sebastian wrote:
what is a safe way to clean a post/get before echoing it. example. input form, user enters some text, hits enter. .. next page i echo what they entered. right now i just run the variables passed by htmlentities() which preseves any html. is that acceptable?
You might also want to use stripslashes() if magic_quotes_gpc is on, so the data is not double escaped.

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