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Security matters. How can I guard against things like SQL injection or cross-site scripting? It will be really helpful if somebody could help.

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The best way to prevent SQL injection attacks is to make sure that all strings passed into SQL queries, especially if they are derived from user-generated input, are properly escaped. If using MySQL with PHP, you can use the mysqli::real_escape_string() function. Other databases have equivalent functions.

To prevent cross-site scripting attacks, you similarly want to make sure that all text derived from user-generated input is HTML escaped. If using PHP, you can use the htmlspecialchars() function.

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