I am editing the woocommerce orders.php template and ran into a problem. The template shows to user the orders he has placed. There are now several variables that I think need to be coded for security, such as $date_created or $view_order which contains the order link. So I’m trying to add esc_html to t…
Tag: escaping
preg_replace vs ereg_replace vs str_replace On This Particular Case
Using PHP, I want to generate custom MySQL dump file (due to cannot use exec and a few other reasons). So I found these 2 similar solutions: https://www.kvcodes.com/2017/10/php-create-mysql-backup …
Can I make php automatically escape HTML chars when using ?
I am using unescaped data for example some string ” <>> ‘ blah. This causes trouble when I do this: Which results in: Is there a way to tell php to call htmlspecialchars on everything before printing it to the html document using <?= ?> so I don’t have to call it manually ever…
PHP – Does $setting need to be escaped in a ‘putenv’ call?
The putenv function takes a single argument, a string. This string is expected to take the following format: KEY=VALUE. Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/function.putenv.php Take the following code as a potential use case: Does $dir in the above example need to be escaped? If so, what kind of escaping needs…
Blade: escaping text and allowing new lines
I have a user-input text displayed on one of the pages. I want to allow new lines, though. How do I display the text, so it is escaped AND allows new lines? I used nl2br() and Blade’s tripple …
Do not escape html stored as string (execute or process html string) [closed]
In PHP (WordPress theme function, trying to add html stored in theme options to blog header), I’m trying to get the following line: $x=”
html
“; echo $x; To render html just like: …
PHP How to echo without HTML tags
I have a sort of system where everybody can type whatever he wants. Though, they can also seem to use tags like , etc. How …
Escaping data – stripslashes, strip_tags
Why do a lot of people use both these functions on a string? I see a lot of stripslashes(strip_tags($field)); (or the other way around) Isn’t strip_tags enough to filter any xss stuff and such things? Answer Escaping data has nothing to do with strip_tags or stripslashes. These functions filter certain …