I've been doing some reading on securing PHP applications, and it seems to me that mysqli_real_escape_string is the correct function to use when inserting data into MySQL tables because addslashes ...

Should I use the mysql_real_escape_string() function in my MySQL queries for $_SESSION variables? Theoretically, the $_SESSION variables can't be modified by the end-user unlike $_GET or $_POST var...

I'd like to have a function behaving as mysql_real_escape_string without connecting to database as at times I need to do dry testing without DB connection. mysql_escape_string is deprecated and the...

I'm escaping all the string parameters I receive from a php form like this: $usr_name = mysql_real_escape_string($_REQUEST['usr_name']); to avoid a few problems with SQL Injection. But when I my...