[Xerte] Re: Xerte Toolkits - installation and management special

[Pat L (pgogy)]

sqlite for XAMPP installs makes sense to me - seems logical
if site_url ==?


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>wrote:

> We previously surveyed via the mailing list whether requiring PHP 5.x was
> ok
> and the concensus was yes and most were running at least 5.2.
>
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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
> Sent: 27 May 2014 17:29
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte Toolkits - installation and management special
>
>
> > I understand the reasoning, and I do (really) appreciate you doing the
> > work you did. It makes it easier to modify the db back-end, and it
> > makes XOT safer against SQL injection.
>
> Yes. Note there are outstanding pull requests to merge into XOT on github.
>
> > 1. I do think we should probably implement database_library.php using
> > PDO (I would like to do it that way)
>
> Fine with me.
>
> > 2. I do think sqlite has its merits, only not as a default, certainly
> > not for an update
>
> Well - the fact it would make installation a lot easier on LAMP/WAMP style
> set ups is one of the big pluses I think - i.e. there is no need to edit
> any
> setting files, try and get MySQL working or go into /setup.
>
> Just upload to the server and fix permissions on USER-FILES.
>
> The downsides are that it has no (real) security / no support for multiple
> users, and isn't going to persist very well post-reboot at the moment!
>
> > 3. I think for the time being mysql should still be the default.
> >
> >
> > So, again, thank you! I would appreciate a PDO implementation if you
> > have one, I will modify the installer to ask what engine to use (and
> > include sqlite) and go from there.
>
> No problem. I can create a PDO variant easily enough. I'll create a pull
> request once done.
>
> David.
>
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