One of the greatest strengths of PHP is its ease of use. Unfortunately this same benifit has worked against PHP as many new coders have forgotten any security measures or lack the expertise to create a class to validate their variables from end users. PHP provides an extension to help with this process. There are many validation classes out there, some better than others, with an equal number of methods for doing the same task. The PHP filter extension has many of the functions needed for checking many types of user input. Handled locally this provides a standard method of filtering data. This makes for easier to read code as we will all be using the same functions rather than having to create our own. This will bring PHP security to fore with programmers able to easily implement simple, yet robust, filtering of data