(PECL taint >=0.1.0)
taint — Mark strings as tainted
Manually marks the given strings as tainted, as if they had arrived from user input. The variables are passed by reference, but the mark itself is stored on the string rather than on the variable: every variable sharing the same string becomes tainted at once.
This is mainly useful for testing, and for simulating user input in CLI scripts where the $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE superglobals are not populated.
stringA variable holding the string to mark.
stringsFurther variables to mark.
Always returns true. When
taint.enable is off, the
function does nothing and still returns true.
Example #1 taint() example
<?php
$name = "world";
taint($name);
var_dump(is_tainted($name));
?>The above example will output something similar to:
bool(true)
Note:
Only non-empty strings are marked; variables holding other types, or empty strings, are silently ignored.
Note:
Interned, persistent and permanent strings (string literals, opcache shared strings) can never carry the mark and are silently skipped.