note 114045 deleted from function.intval by cmb

Note Submitter: jplevene at netscape dot net ---- I have found intval very useful for database security. If you are passing a value via - Data from user input - Data that you have stored RAW on DB (witch is the best way) and you are using on a new sql statment - Data from unknown/other origin and the data is supposed to be an integer, I always run it through intval before I put it into the query (or you could use real_escape_string) This prevents hackers from passing the variable as an SQL statement instead of a number in order to attack your database.