SQL injection is a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed.
Using mod_rewrite to alter your dynamic URI’s
Ever wondered how WordPress sites get those nice search engine friendly URI’s? Whereby it changes http://www.example.co.za/?p=867 to something like http://www.example.co.za/contact-us?
Maximum MySQL Database Size?
While developing myScoop, and other experimental projects, I have been thinking about the limitations of a MySQL database, particularly it’s maximum file size. I was amazed that after some research I really have absolutely nothing to worry about. It seems my 112mb database is a “new born baby” in the terms of how big it can still grow.
PHP Header Include – Saving development time
I have had the opportunity to go through a lot of other developers coding skills and practices in the past few months and I must admit there is a lot of time wasting going on. Are you the type of developer that has a <title>, <meta>, <link> and <body> tag on every page without a global include? If so, let me show you how to simplify your life.