HTML Purifier
Standards compliant HTML filter written in PHP (by ezyang)
Halite
High-level cryptography interface powered by libsodium (by paragonie)
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| HTML Purifier | Halite | |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 7 | |
| 2,973 | 1,111 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 5.6 | 0.0 | |
| 10 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
HTML Purifier
Posts with mentions or reviews of HTML Purifier.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.
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XSS Attack - Why strip_tags is not enough
HTML Purifier
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Is HTML purifier still being updated?
On the homepage of http://htmlpurifier.org the last update is of december 2021. I didn’t think of checking GitHub. Thanks for the info!
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User-friendly and safe templating engine?
For HTML specifically, HTMLPurifier is pretty well known.
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Cross-site Scripting (XSS) and ways to prevent it in PHP applications
There are several third party PHP libraries which are commonly used to assist in XSS prevention. Examples👇 HTML Purifier – here PHP Anti-XSS – here htmLawed – here
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WYSISYG Editor Issues
You need to filter the received HTML code and remove the tags and attributes you don't allow. The easiest way to do this is to use htmlpurifier. Otherwise you have to manually cleanup the HTML by using strip_tags and maybe some xml parsing (or regex) to remove unwanted attributes.
- How to use Laraberg on the client side and avoid XSS attacks?
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How to properly sanitise & check POST data from REST API? Which libraries can you suggest? best ways nowadays in 2022
Or HTMLPurifier.
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Looking for a simple html sanitizer that could also filter authorized charcters to use in an article
Definitely, its one of the best http://htmlpurifier.org/
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I might get an intern as a php dev, only used languages & web frameworks etc. What should I know?
Popular Packages & Tools - The League of Extraordinary Packages - Twig Templating engine - PHP Mailer - SwiftMailer - Flysystem file storage - PHPUnit testing - HTML Purifier
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HTML Washer
Check out this lib: http://htmlpurifier.org/. It is widely used in the PHP World.
Halite
Posts with mentions or reviews of Halite.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-09.
- sodium_crypto_secretbox
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Does Halite do PGP?
I'm trying to find a PHP package that will handle PGP encryption/decryption. Halite keeps coming up but I can't tell from searching if it handles PGP. If it doesn't, can you recommend a PHP package that does? Thanks!
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Sodium encryption and digital signing made simple
Sounds like https://github.com/paragonie/halite. What does this do better?
- Halite (usable cryptography library for PHP) version 5.0.0 released (Security Improvements within!)
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Weekly "ask anything" thread
One of the Golden Rules of Computing is "Never roll your own Crypto" (without a PhD in Cryptography). If you need to encrypt something at rest I'd recommend the really very excellent Halite Library.
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PASETO v2.0.0 released! (Lengthy release notes)
10,000%. I love Halite.
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PHP.Net Documentation for ext/sodium Coming Soon
Excellent job! I've been using the https://github.com/paragonie/halite library on top of Sodium just so I don't have to re-work everything out, but this is going to be nice for cases when including third party libraries isn't possible!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing HTML Purifier and Halite you can also consider the following projects:
AntiXSS - ㊙️ AntiXSS | Protection against Cross-site scripting (XSS) via PHP
PHP Encryption - Simple Encryption in PHP.
Symfony - The Symfony PHP framework
PHPSecLib - PHP Secure Communications Library
ZAP - The ZAP core project
PHP IDS - PHPIDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is a simple to use, well structured, fast and state-of-the-art security layer for your PHP based web application
Laravel - Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.
PHP SSH - An experimental object oriented SSH api in PHP
SensioLabs Security Check - A database of PHP security advisories
random_compat - PHP 5.x support for random_bytes() and random_int()
IniScan - A php.ini scanner for best security practices