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PHP Oracle Web Development: Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax

By : Yuli Vasiliev
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PHP Oracle Web Development: Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax

By: Yuli Vasiliev

Overview of this book

Oracle Database gets high marks for performance, reliability, and scalability. Building and deploying your PHP applications on Oracle Database enables you to combine the power and robustness of Oracle and the ease of use, short development time, and high performance of PHP. When used in a complementary way, PHP and Oracle allow you to build high-performance, scalable, and reliable data-driven Web applications with a minimum of effort.When building a PHP/Oracle application, you have two general options. The first is to use an Oracle database just to store data, performing all the operations on that data on the client side; the other is to use the database not only to store data, but also to process it, thus moving data processing to the data. While building the key business logic of a database-driven PHP application inside the database is always a good idea, you should bear in mind that not all of the databases available today allow you to do. The Oracle database, which offers record-breaking performance, scalability, and reliability, does. The partnership of Oracle and the open-source scripting language PHP is an excellent solution for building high-performance, scalable, and reliable data-driven web applications.This 100% practical book is crammed full of easy-to-follow examples. It provides all the tools a PHP/Oracle developer needs to take advantage of the winning combination. It addresses the needs of a wide spectrum of PHP/Oracle developers, placing the emphasis on the most up-to-date topics, such as new PHP and Oracle Database features, stored procedure programming, handling transactions, security, caching, web services, and Ajax.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
PHP Oracle Web Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Chapter 6. Security

The main reason for setting up security in your PHP/Oracle application is to protect it against unauthorized access or alteration of the data.

In the preceding chapter, you learned how to build an authentication system in PHP using the Auth class from the PEAR library. You also saw several examples of how this class might be extended to suit the needs of a particular application. However, it is important to realize that implementing an authentication system is only the first step in building a secure application. Once a user is successfully authenticated, your application should determine whether that user is authorized to access the requested database resources, thus defining different levels of permissions for different users. It is always a good idea to implement authorization within the database as it guarantees that no one will be able to bypass the application's security, even if the connecting to the database is made directly.

This chapter discusses how to effectively...