^Status|Draft|
^Todo|Proof read|

====== Security Helper ======
The security helper offers various methods that assist with input filtering.

===== Methods =====

==== xss_clean() ====
'xss_clean' behaves the same as [[libraries:input#xss_clean]] in the Input library. 
  * [string] String to be cleansed

==== strip_image_tags() ====
'strip_image_tags()' strips the image tags out of a string and returns the string trimmed without the image tags. 
  * [string] String to be stripped

<code php>
$string = '<b>Check this image:</b> <img src="http://www.example.com/example.jpg" />';
print Kohana::debug(security::strip_image_tags($string));
</code>
It will result in HTML as:
<code html>
<b>Check this image:</b> http://www.example.com/example.jpg
</code>

==== encode_php_tags() ====
'encode_php_tags' replaces PHP tags in a string with their corresponding HTML entities.
  * [string] String to santize
<code php>
$string = '<?php echo "<b>Hello World!</b>" ?>';
print Kohana::debug(security::encode_php_tags($string));
</code>
It will result in HTML as:
<code html>
&lt;?php echo "<b>Hello World!</b>" ?&gt;
</code>