© Ben Edmunds 2016

Ben Edmunds, Securing PHP Apps, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2120-4_1

1. Never Trust Your Users. Sanitize ALL Input!

Ben Edmunds

(1)Brooklyn, New York, USA

Electronic supplementary material

The online version of this chapter (doi:10.​1007/​978-1-4842-2120-4_​1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Let’s start with a story. Mike is the system administrator for a small private school in Oklahoma. His main responsibility is keeping the network and computers working. Recently he started automating various tasks around the school by building a web application for internal use. He doesn’t have any formal training and just started programming about a year ago, but he feels pretty good about his work. He knows ...

Get Securing PHP Apps now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.