Do I need to sanitize the user input Laravel

Question

I am using Laravel 4 with Eloquent. When I get the user input I just use $name=Input::get('name') and then I do $a->name=$name;

I don't know if the function Input::get protect me from SQL Injection and XSS. If it does not, what do I have to do to sanitize the input?

And, when I show the value in my view, shall I use {{$a}} or {{{$a}}}

Greetings and thanks.

Answer 1

Laravel uses PDO's parameter binding, so SQL injection is not something you should worry about. You should read this though.

Input::get() does not filter anything.

Triple curly braces do the same as e() and HTML::entities(). All of them call htmlentities with UTF-8 support:

htmlentities($your_string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', false);