Reputation: 2149

PHP data sanitization in emails

My PHP scripts recieves information (from a user submitted form) and sends it (almost) straight away as an email. What kind of sainitization should I do on the data?

I want to know exactly which PHP function to use to sanitize the data.

Upvotes: 3

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datasage

Reputation: 19573

You need to read up on email injection. Take a look here:

http://www.damonkohler.com/2008/12/email-injection.html

Upvotes: 2

Alix Axel

Reputation: 154573

You'll want to:

validate the email address
sanitize (or not) HTML tags to avoid XSS attacks
sanitize the e-mail contents to avoid e-mail header injections

Upvotes: 1

bitfox

Reputation: 2292

Have a look at PHP Data Filtering. There are a lots of built in php functions which can be used for data validation and sanitization.

Upvotes: 1

PHP data sanitization in emails

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