[PHP-DB] Re: generating random id's

2006-02-09 Thread Dan Baker
"JeRRy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Just to let you all know I used PHP's unique ID generator to generate a > unique id for tracking purposes. > I than md5 it hide the format a bit, would this be enough? > Or can be easily worked out also? > Need it pretty tig

[PHP-DB] Re: Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-09 Thread Dan Baker
Neil made a great post about storing credit card data at your own site securely. I thought I'd add a note: If you do implement his suggestion, I'd suggest adding a Reference type situation: (1) When you add credit card data to the system, have it return a valid Reference to that credit card.

[PHP-DB] Re: Re: Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-wayencryption

2006-01-09 Thread Dan Baker
> On 1/9/06, Dan Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And last of all, I > know of a pretty large company that uses a service > similar to VeriSign. This other service (can't remember the name) didn't > provide the "PNRef" scenario, so the company stores cr

[PHP-DB] Re: Re: Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-wayencryption

2006-01-09 Thread Dan Baker
"Peter Beckman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Dan Baker wrote: > >> "Peter Beckman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> So I'm thinking about how to s

[PHP-DB] Re: Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-06 Thread Dan Baker
"Peter Beckman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > So I'm thinking about how to save credit card numbers in the DB, for > re-charging cards for subscriptions, new orders, etc. > > I'm also thinking about how to save passwords in the DB, not plaintext, > but > not one-wa

[PHP-DB] Re: maximum number of records in a db?

2005-08-26 Thread Dan Baker
"Jordan Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I was just wondering what is the maximum number of records that can be >successfully handled with a db. any db will do. it doesn't have to be the >fastest or best, just one that can hold the maximum number of records

[PHP-DB] Re: load data infile -- problem

2005-08-18 Thread Dan Baker
"select.now" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > So, in command line, all works fine, all records are correctly imported. > - > >mysql load data infile 'c:\\datastream\\import\import > ->into table iport > -> fields terminated by