25897Introduction to Using Sessions with ADOdbhttp://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/node/view/37PHP4 is packed with good features. One of the most popular is session variables. These are variables that persist throughout a session, as the user moves from page to page. Session variables are great holders of state information and other useful stuff.
To use session variables, call session_start() at the beginning of your web page, before your HTTP headers are sent. Then for every variable you want to keep alive for the duration of the session, store it in $_SESSION[$variable_name]. By default, the session handler will keep track of the session by using a cookie. You can save objects or arrays in session variables also (but be warned that this is buggy in some versions of PHP4).PHP > Tips and Tutorials > Database-RelatedOct 15, 2006John Lim
In some recent work I needed to have databases created with a back end application. Once the database was created from this online application it was pre filled with tables and data from another script that ran right after the database was made. To create a database with PHP we first need to connect as a user that has the ability to create new databases. Note that we are not connecting to a database but we are connecting to MySQL as a user.
This chapter provides tutorial notes on connecting PHP scripts to MySQl servers. Topics include creating database connection objects; executing INSERT INTO, SELECT, and UPDATE statements from PHP scripts.
Typical SQL injection happens when user input is not filtered for escape characters and is then passed into a SQL statement. This results in the potential manipulation of the statements performed on the database by the end user of the application.
Most interactive websites nowadays require data to be presented dynamically and interactively based on input from the user. For example, a customer may need to log into a retail website to check his purchasing history. In this instance, the website would have stored two types of data in order for the customer to perform the check ? the customer?s personal login details; and the customer?s purchased items. This data can be stored in two types of storage ? flat files or databases.
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