RE: [PHP-GENERAL] Authenticating throught Middle tier using Oracl e 8i

> Many people write applications giving too many privileges to the web > user and all pages connect to the database using this user, > but when we > need to code another set of applications more security considerations > need to be handled. > > Otherwise if we choose using database user authentication any > request to > a web page means one login/logout to the database raising the response > time between the web server and client, that is not acceptable too. (I > tried this). What did you try? PHP supports persistent connections, so the user authenticates only once per session, establishes a connection, and reuses the same connection for each page thereafter. -John