whats the best way to secure your header?

[JAMESOMIGHTY]

this is what i have

 

<?php
$count = 3;
$x = -1;
while($x < $count)
{
$places_to_be_secured = array("ID","viewforum","viewtopic");
$x++;
$_GET[$places_to_be_secured[$x]] = abs(@intval($_GET[$places_to_be_secured[$x]]));
$_GET['ID'] = abs(@intval($_GET['ID']));
$_GET['viewforum'] = abs(@intval($_GET['viewforum']));
$_GET['viewtopic'] = abs(@intval($_GET['viewtopic']));
$_GET['reply'] = abs(@intval($_GET['reply']));
}

[Zeggy]

$places_to_be_secured = array('ID', 'viewforum', 'viewtopic', 'reply');
$limit = count($places_to_be_secured);
for ($x = 0; $x < $limit; $x++)
{
   $_GET[$places_to_be_secured[$x]] = abs(@intval($_GET[$places_to_be_secured[$x]]));
}

 

Fixed that for you.

I can't comment on how secure it is. As far as I can tell, it's only useful if you need these fields to be positive integers.

[Magictallguy]

Don't rely on this to secure your header, it will do very little - it's more of a false sense of security.

Whilst it does help with (very little) "securing" the GETDATA of ID, viewforum, viewtopic, and reply, it won't do much else.

Stop looking for the short (lazy) way, and secure your code properly

[Zero-Affect]

a friend of mine used this method and it failed when he secured the actual script... was interesting but this is useless