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Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters [message #181197 is a reply to message #181194]

Sat, 20 April 2013 12:15

Thomas 'PointedEars'
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M. Strobel wrote:

> Am 19.04.2013 18:16, schrieb Jim Higgins:
>> I have a problem with people entering a slashed zero vs a standard
>> ASCII zero into HTML forms intended to store data in a MySQL database.
>>
>> Is there a simple way in PHP to restrict input to the ASCII Character
>> set, specifically hex 0x20 - 0x7E ? Or a simple way to detect
>> characters outside this range before committing them to the database?
>>
>> My mind says it should be easy to detect and that I should be able to
>> do it myself, but for some reason I'm drawing a huge blank.
>
> I skipped the long discussion, it looks like having little to do with your
> question.
>
> Input data has to be filtered, IN ANY CASE, plus properly escaped upon
> insertion into the database.
>
> For number input, do something like
>
> $val = sscanf($_POST[$key], '%d')
>
> for signed numbers, or
>
> preg_match('#^[0-9]+$#', $_POST[$key])
>
> for ASCII numbers. Other helpful functions are cast to integer,
> ctype_digit(), ...

Nobody said anything about numbers before, though, and with your From header
field value you are *still* violating the Acceptable Use Policy of your
Usenet service provider, uni-berlin.de.

PointedEars
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var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = (
navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
&& navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
) // Plone, register_function.js:16

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		Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:16
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Lew Pitcher on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Daniel Pitts on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:30
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 21:38
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:11
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:48
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 21:46
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:00
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 19 April 2013 23:23
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Fri, 19 April 2013 17:38
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 19 April 2013 20:33
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Fri, 19 April 2013 21:08
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 19 April 2013 23:12
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Mon, 22 April 2013 11:25
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 22 April 2013 11:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:08
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 15:52
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:06
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:26
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 19 April 2013 23:53
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Sat, 20 April 2013 00:36
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 20 April 2013 00:58
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Sat, 20 April 2013 01:34
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Fri, 19 April 2013 20:19
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 08:04
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:15
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:26
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:34
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:41
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:43
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:55
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 20 April 2013 13:04
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 19:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 00:03
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 21 April 2013 04:51
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 21 April 2013 04:57
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 12:45
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Tim Streater on Sun, 21 April 2013 14:09
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 14:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 12:44
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 20 April 2013 14:07
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 00:06
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 15:43
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 16:01
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 16:17
		Address munging (was: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters) By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 16:23
		OT: Address munging (was: Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters) By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 19:25
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Denis McMahon on Sat, 20 April 2013 22:06
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 22 April 2013 12:10

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