How to “Validate” Human Names in CakePHP?

Question

I have a PHP script that is supposed to check for \"valid\" human names, but recently cracked against a name with a space, so we added spaces to our validator.
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Answer 1

Don't make any assumptions about how a name may pe spelled. Accept any input (yes, any), and do proper escaping when displaying it, so you don't get XSS vulnerabilities.

I'd suggest you do this escaping in the model on afterFind(), so you don't forget it somewhere. Keep the original data in a separate field of the model, like ['unescaped_name'], if you need to access the plain data.