Posted by Chris Shiflett on 11/15/05 02:24

GamblerZG wrote:
> > If you had anything other than $_OCLEAN in an echo and friends, then
> > you would know you were screwing up.
>
> Personally, if I pull something info from the database, then I do not
> usually sanitize it. Yes, I know it's less secure, but I'm willing to
> take such (negligible) risk for extra performance. So I sanitize data
> on input only.

Sanitizing is an alias for filtering and has nothing to do with
escaping. One should never be considered a substitute for the other,
although this is a common mistake.

Chris

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