Re: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-27 Thread Jan G.B.
2010/8/27 Jan G.B. ro0ot.w...@googlemail.com: But make sure the other code which we don't see - does not outpot any _POST / _GET / _REQUEST / _COOKIE variables without encoding the contents (f.e. htmlspecialchars), or - does not send and user supplied data without scaping the sb-related

Re: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-27 Thread Jan G.B.
2010/8/25 Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:05:12PM -0400, David Mehler wrote: Hello, Thanks to all who answered my quotes question. I've got another one. I've got several combo boxes that are sticky, below is an example of one and the function. Now i'd like

Re: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-26 Thread tedd
At 3:59 PM +0100 8/25/10, Ashley Sheridan wrote: 2.4 seconds doesn't seem so bad on 10 million iterations, but yes, it does show that you should avoid it if it's really not necessary. Most often I'll use that sort of syntax if I do something like this: $greeting = Hello $name, not seen you

[PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-25 Thread David Mehler
Hello, I've got two questions. I'm having to redo my form. Can you tell me the difference if any between these two lines of code? This is for output filtering. textarea name=description ?php echo htmlout($description); ?/textarea textarea name=description?php echo htmlout($description); ?

Re: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-25 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 10:24 -0400, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I've got two questions. I'm having to redo my form. Can you tell me the difference if any between these two lines of code? This is for output filtering. textarea name=description ?php echo htmlout($description); ?/textarea

RE: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-25 Thread Bob McConnell
From: David Mehler I've got two questions. I'm having to redo my form. Can you tell me the difference if any between these two lines of code? This is for output filtering. textarea name=description ?php echo htmlout($description); ?/textarea textarea name=description?php echo

Re: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-25 Thread Bostjan Skufca
Speed difference is substantial: ### Test 1: $message1 = asdf werqwe; for ($i=0; $i1000; $i++) { $message2 = $message1; } ### Takes 1,1 seconds (on machine tested) ### Test2: $message1 = asdf werqwe; for ($i=0; $i1000; $i++) { $message2 = $message1; } ### Takes 2,4 seconds (on

Re: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-25 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 16:48 +0200, Bostjan Skufca wrote: Speed difference is substantial: ### Test 1: $message1 = asdf werqwe; for ($i=0; $i1000; $i++) { $message2 = $message1; } ### Takes 1,1 seconds (on machine tested) ### Test2: $message1 = asdf werqwe; for ($i=0;

Re: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-25 Thread Marc Guay
function html($text) {        return htmlentities($text, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); } function htmlout($text) {        return html($text); } Possibly irrelevant, and definitely not related to your questions, but is it just me or is htmlout() a useless function? Why not just call html()

Re: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-25 Thread Jan G.B.
2010/8/25 Marc Guay marc.g...@gmail.com: function html($text) {        return htmlentities($text, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); } function htmlout($text) {        return html($text); } Possibly irrelevant, and definitely not related to your questions, but is it just me or is htmlout() a

Re: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-25 Thread David Mehler
Hello, Thanks to all who answered my quotes question. I've got another one. I've got several combo boxes that are sticky, below is an example of one and the function. Now i'd like to tighten it up by ensuring that an external user can't inject values other than value1 or value2 in to the script.

Re: [PHP] two questions on serverside validation

2010-08-25 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:05:12PM -0400, David Mehler wrote: Hello, Thanks to all who answered my quotes question. I've got another one. I've got several combo boxes that are sticky, below is an example of one and the function. Now i'd like to tighten it up by ensuring that an external user