(Chris Shiflett) This chapter discusses form processing and the most common types of attacks that you need to be aware of when dealing with data from forms and URLs. You will learn about attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgeries (CSRF), as well as how to spoof form

(Jack Loftus) Analysts and users alike saw victories for open source software (OSS) in 2005 in the areas of personal productivity applications, customer relationship management (CRM) and databases, where open source vendors such as MySQL gained some ground on proprietary stalwarts like Oracle Corp.

(Roger Stringer) You may be familiar with relational databases, but what is a relational content management system? Read on to learn how to build this system, which helps you create a search engine friendly site fairly quickly.

(Stephen Feller) A paper recently written by two university professors offers a business model that would keep the software open and free, while allowing its developers to profit. The model would have open source software companies make money through royalty fees and sales of their newest innovation

(Mellonfire) MySQL is easy to learn and use, and comes with extensive documentation—two factors that have contributed a great deal to its popularity. However, given the speed at which the MySQL code base evolves, even veteran MySQL users are sometimes pleasantly surprised to discover hitherto-unexpe

The process of making databases available to users via a browser has thus far been complex, time consuming, and therefore expensive. These projects have typically taken a lot of time because of the lengthy learning curve and the time-intensive nature of coding. (R,doc)

(Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier) Despite having a strong feature set and excellent performance and stability, PostgreSQL lags significantly behind MySQL in one key area: Many more open source projects support MySQL than PostgreSQL. That limits PostgreSQL adoption to some extent because many users choose My

(Mike Hillyer) A large percentage of MySQL users are using MySQL on a web server hosted by an ISP. Most hosting providers block port 3306 (the MySQL server port) at the firewall, preventing outside access to MySQL. This is an important security practice and you should be very concerned if your ISP d

(Elizabeth Montalbano) Business Objects and MySQL have strengthened their partnership by collaborating on software bundles that combine MySQL’s open-source database with business intelligence (BI) software from Business Objects, company representatives said.

(Robert Daeley) MySQL is a popular database management system with which most web developers are familiar. You can’t swing a cat on the internet without hitting a website running it on the back end. In fact there’s an acronym stemming from the ubiquitous open source combo of Linux, Apache, MySQL