Ray Hauge wrote:
> On Thursday 20 July 2006 07:23, John Nichel wrote:
>> Yeah, one of my earliest thoughts on this was to have them write
>> something simple like connecting to a db, selecting multiple rows,
>> parsing our the result, and displaying it in some fashion.
> 
> Don't forget making it secure.  Here is one of my questions people can use if 
> they like.  Feel free to re-word it.  I'm a programmer, not a writer ;)
> 
> What change(s) would you make to the following code to make it more secure?
> 
> $id = $_GET['id'];
> mysql_query(“DELETE FROM myTbl WHERE id = $id”);

/*
// removed security flaw
$id = $_GET['id'];
mysql_query(“DELETE FROM myTbl WHERE id = $id”);
//*/

;-)

> 
> I like this question, because they have to know at least the fundamentals of 
> PHP security.
> 

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