New from NETTUTS.com today there’s an article that both reminds PHP developers of the importance of filtering data and gives them a long list of the filters that PHP has to make it easy.

On his blog, Mattias writes an excellent article describing how to handle validation & sanitization efforts using the filter_var() function in PHP. He also includes a very helpful list of all the various option constants that you can use.

HTML Purifier has released version 3.0.0. This is the projects first release of 2008 and the first release to work exclusively on PHP 5. The change log lists 10 features and changes to the tool.

p. Security becomes the top priority (or activity) of many PHP developers. Its place and importance keeps growing in every single project, open source or commercial. Every conference provides a talk about security and you can read PHP security on the magazine cover pages.

p. Security in PHP application is a large topic. This article explains one of the most important part of any security policy: the input or data filtering.

p. Last month Davey Shafik, programmer, author, Zend Framework contributor and all around nice guy, released a PDF to help PHP programmers grasp what is necessary to turn filthy dirty, untrustworthy user input into refined data that can be safely used in your application.