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Hello, After searching over the internet how to secure a web application(forms) in PHP, in most of the cases were just suggestions not a short and real example. In some cases is suggested to use strip_tags( trim( $_POST['PARAMETER'] ) ); but when you have some special inputs like comments field …

So I'm using an Ajax request and processing input of sentence(s) in my program that will be looked up using a thesaurus API. The processing works fine, but I am trying to get it so that it will strip bad input such as semicolons in order for the API to …