PHP: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

Maintaining Security

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There is one overriding consideration to take into account when you work on anything more than a simple product or personal web page. As soon as you begin to work with data, accept input from users, process it, and return information based on that input, opportunities for compromise can occur.

   It doesn’t matter what the website is; if it has a vulnerability, it will be discovered and exploited. And this won’t necessarily be by human ...