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PHP immune to SQL injection attacks

17th August 2002

An interesting thread on SitePoint about SQL injection attacks. One of the points brought up is that PHP is by default virtually immune to injection attacks thanks to magic quotes (discussed here yesterday).

Posted 17th August 2002 at 2:47 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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