Pro PHP Security: From Application Security Principles to the Implementation of XSS Defenses, Second Edition

Preface

Thanks for purchasing the second edition of this book. It's been almost five years since the first edition was published, and that meant that a lot has changed in the world of web security. Our goal for this edition of the book was simple: reorganize the book from a web developer's perspective, update important new information as it applies to PHP security, and leave out any information that was outdated.

As far as organization goes, you'll find that most of the information from the first edition is present in this book, but it's been reordered so as to emphasize what web developers care about most: their own code, their own database queries, and their own code base. The book then expands to take into account safe operations (like using ...