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59<h1>Security Helper</h1>
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61<p>The Security Helper file contains security related functions.</p>
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64<h2>Loading this Helper</h2>
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66<p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p>
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72<h2>xss_clean()</h2>
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admine334c472006-10-21 19:44:22 +000074<p>Provides Cross Site Script Hack filtering. This function is an alias to the one in the
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80<p>Permits you to create SHA1 or MD5 one way hashes suitable for encrypting passwords. Will create SHA1 by default. Examples:</p>
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91<h2>strip_image_tags()</h2>
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93<p>This is a security function that will strip image tags from a string. It leaves the image URL as plain text.</p>
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98<h2>encode_php_tags()</h2>
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100<p>This is a security function that converts PHP tags to entities. Note: If you use the XSS filtering function it does this automatically.</p>
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