Final NotesIn this tutorial we have covered some of the most commony used
PHP Security threats. You are advised to seek out more information on the subject since hackers are becoming smarter and smarter every day, devising new ways to hack into your system. Also, the solutions presented in this tutorial are not all that there is, but are most common ways of patching. There are surely better and more clever ways to protect your scripts.
At any rate, if you're beginner in PHP, make sure you incorporate protections presented here in your coding so that it becomes automatic. So automatic that you never, ever insert value from a variable into SQL without escaping sensitive chars or typecasting to int, for example, since SQL injections are always attempted first, when attacking a server.
Another good article on SQL injection is located here
php.net/manual/en/security.database.sql-injection.php
