Re: Poll on your LAPP Preferences

brew(at)theMode(dot)com wrote:

>Mike.....
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>>If I can improve this process, then a developer can download my web app,
>>try it out rapidly, comparing it against others, and hopefully decide on
>>mine because I have made it easy to get started and easy to customize to
>>their tastes.
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>If it's a Linux-Apache-PHP-PostgreSQL web app you only need one user, the
>one your PHP script logs in as. Then maybe you could put the same
>randomly generated password in both postgres and the PHP script.
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Who says? I sometimes require that the PHP app logs into the database
with the username/password suppled by the user. This makes it easier to
manage permissions. Of course you cannot use connection pooling in this
case without a partial rewrite of your app...

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Metatron Technology Consulting