Re: How to get an unix programmer started on web programming?

Volker Hetzer wrote: 
Mark wrote:

apache/oracle/php.


Why not apache/mysql/php? My opinion is that using Oracle for web purposes is like using a rifle to kill a fly. 

We do have oracle already running, standby database and all and it
runs other applications too. Especially it holds data we want to access
from the web interface.

Looking at my shelf, I just realized that most of my favorites are published by O'Reilly. 

Ok.

Any idea about a general intro to web stuff, like html/xml/css
and such?

Lots of Greetings!
Volker


Volker,

Don't allow access to your Oracle server through the web, especially if you have confidential data on it that's not needed by the web. If someone successfully hacks your system, they not only could have full access to the data in your Oracle databases, but they could damage them as well.

Rather, replicate only the data necessary to run your website to another database accessible by the web server (if you're happy with Oracle, that's fine). Then access that subset from the server.

And if your users update this data from the website (i.e. order entry has to decrement inventory count), don't just automatically replicate the changes back to your main database. Rather, have the web site code call a program running on the Oracle server (or another server behind your firewall). This program should (again) validate the information and then make the database changes.


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