PHP Sanitize Data

Question

I am new to the world of coding and PHP hence would like to learn what\'s the best way to sanitize form data to avoid malformed pages, code injections and the like. Is the s

Answer 1

As a general rule if you are using PHP & MySQL you will want to sanitize data going into MySQL like so:

$something = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['your_form_data']);

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php