Prevent SQL Injections with PHP
Sunday 28th January, 2007 - By Woolie 
One of the things that most scared me when creating database driven applications with PHP was the thought of someone messing with my database by using SQL injection attacks. I had heard about this from various times before thanks to other sites, but didn’t really know what it meant or what harm it could cause. In this article, I hope to enlighten you.
Database Abstraction with ADODB
Sunday 17th December, 2006 - By Woolie
The use of abstraction layers is a controversial topic among PHP users. There are many reasons why people use them, and likewise why they don’t. The fact is, abstraction layers will always be around and they provide a very quick way of creating applications, even though for very high traffic sites, it may be a performance hit to use large libraries if they aren’t properly scripted. In this article I will be going through the advantages and disadvantages of using the ADODB database abstraction layer. This article is biased in it’s favour but I will also be discussing the disadvantages.
It came to my attention a few years ago, that SQL code could easily be injected into forms that interact with a database. This can cause many problems.