Pro PHP Security (Pro)

PHP is the world’s most popular open source web scripting language, installed on almost 17 million domains worldwide (www.php.net/usage.php). It is loved by beginners and embraced by advanced users. This book offers developers a complete guide to taking both defensive and proactive security approaches within their PHP applications. Pro PHP Security guides developers through many of the defensive and proactive security measures that can be taken to help prevent attackers from potentially disrupting site operation or destroying data. Moreover, this book covers a wide swath of security measures, showing readers how to create and deploy captchas, validate email, fend off SQL injection attacks, prevent cross-site scripting attempts, and more.