Re: [cobalt-users] Raq 2 & Raq 3 Filtered Login Security

["Brian Curtis" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Web Doctor" <nywebdocter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> But how do we funnel all traffic to a single front door web page for an
> entire site without using htaccess or making all the web pages dynamic
> (which will be too slow)?
>
> Symbolic links?
> Javascript and cookies on all pages?
>


You might want to look into session management with PHP3/PHPLIB.  Then you
could even build both your db frontend and backend in PHP with some xSQL
engine.

If you're new to PHP, I recommend the book 'PHP3 - Programming Browser-based
Applications', ISBN 0-07-135342-9.  Contains great examples on using PHP
with SQL databases (mainly MySQL though), and using session management
techniques with PHPLIB.

The book 'Core PHP Programming' is also a decent reference, ISBN
0-13-020787-X.  Both are $40 off-the-shelf and include cd-roms with source
code to the examples.  Best $80 I spent to learn PHP.

B. Curtis