# Security

## General Validation

Never trust input regardless of where it is coming from! The responsibility falls on the library functions to ensure that potentially dangerous input does not introduce a security hole. Some sort of sanitation, validation, or quoting must be provided for all arguments in a function. This ensures that bad data does not make its way into an SQL string, a filename, an executable, or even another function.

Relying on JavaScript-based validation is nice for instant feedback to the user, but should not replace validation checking in the PHP code.

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