Lately, I've been getting a lot of requests to build websites driven by lots of data, so I've been reading heavily into MySQL and PHP. I've been relying "Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition" by W. Jason Gilmore. I was concerned with his use of connecting to MySQL with a plaintext user name and password, so I went through a few tutorials online: [hvassing.com] [studiolounge.net] and the SQL reference manual: [dev.mysql.com] Of course, they did the same thing. I'm working on trying to implement an SSL solution to login, but unfortunately I think it'll require an X.509 certificate.
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