Posts Tagged ‘database queries

Written by: Monjurul Dolon While working on my latest project, DevGrow Discussions, I came across the need to embed my entire WordPress sidebar on a non-WordPress site – specifically a bbPress forum. Since I make use of various widgets to display popular posts and other dynamic content, simply copying and pasting the HTML would not [...]

PHP’s prepared statements (for database access) are fantastic. Not only do they help secure your database queries, but they’re also particularly more efficient for larger products. However, there are a couple issues that appear to make these methods less flexible than we’d hope. For one, we must utilize the bind_result method, and pass in a [...]

SQL injection is a security exploit in which an attacker injects SQL parameters into a Web form, allowing him or her to send database queries and ultimately gain access. SQL injection is not a direct database problem but rather an application issue that indirectly affects your database systems. There are several web application vulnerability scanners [...]

Earlier this week, I posted an article by Amber Weinberg, entitled “Should Designers Know How to Code? Thoughts From a Developer.” In that article, Amber writes about her own experiences as a front-end developer and comes to the basic conclusion that, while not all designers actually need to code their designs, they should understand the [...]

Dynamic web pages are great; you can adapt the resulting page to your user, show other user’s activity, offer different products to your customers based on their navigation history, and so on. But the more dynamic a website is, the more database queries you’ll probably need to perform. Unfortunately, these database queries consume the largest [...]


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