[KLUG Members] database programming question

[Phillip Hofmeister]

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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 at 10:30:00PM -0400, Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> Part of me is thinking that I just left reality and entered the
> twilight zone but I know that with hard work I can pull this off.  I
> am not sure what books or other resources to look for though for help
> in doing this.  I am also wondering if I would be best to do like a
> PHP web front-end or maybe a character based front-end and use ssh
> for the terminial emulation of it, at least for basic data entry.  We
> are a health care organization so I have HIPAA and other privacy
> regulations to think about.  

If you develop in PHP, make sure you develop with register_globals = Off
in your php.ini file.  This step alone will do leaps and bounds to
increase the security of your application.

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Phillip Hofmeister

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