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Secure Development for Mobile Apps
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Secure Development for Mobile Apps

by J. D. Glaser
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
472 pages
10h 44m
English
Auerbach Publications
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pHp And pdo
e wildly popular and widely implemented legacy MySQL API, known as the
mysql_query() series of functions, exists no more. It is depreciated as of PHP5.5.
PDO, which stands for PHP Database Objects, is one of two database libraries that
are to be used with MySQL going forward. Two reasons for moving on from the
legacy MySQL API are an object-oriented interface to the database functions, and
improved security. e first reason is great; the second is essential. Previously, it took
a lot of manual effort to make mysql_query() secure. Even so, something could
easily be missed, and often was. e libraries’ widespread use has enabled both great
applications and widespread security holes. An automated way to assist with database
secu ...
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