[PHP] form textbox with search

2004-04-20 Thread Anthony Ritter
Greets, The following code snippet receives data from a textbox named searchtext if the user types in a word. It then tries to match that word from the mysql database using: $searchtext = $_POST['searchtext']; if ($searchtext != '') { // Some search text was specified $where .= AND blurb LIKE

Re: [PHP] form textbox with search

2004-04-20 Thread Justin French
On 21/04/2004, at 12:39 PM, Anthony Ritter wrote: $searchtext = $_POST['searchtext']; Firstly, using POST data directly in an SQL query is *really dangerous*. At the very least, you might want to trim it's length, strip tags, and trim white space. $searchtext =