Security Concern?

From: Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:03:15 +0000
Subject: Security Concern?
Groups: php.general 
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Hi Everyone, Last week you all helped me with the code to pull the database field names directly from the database rather then being hardcoded by me. Now I got to thinking, that I have exposed my database layout to anyone who can log in and see it. Is that a security issue? I've heard that if an attacker has the field names of a database, it makes it easier for them to try and inject code into it. All my queries to the database are done through prepared statements, and mysqli_real_escape_string. So I've taken care of at least part of it. I'm thinking that sense you have to log into the website to see the field names, it's okay as long as I trust and monitor my users. But I thought I would pose the question to people who are ALOT more knowledgeable then me :) Any comments are welcome, if you want to see source let me know and I can shoot you an e-mail off list (Don't really want to expose my code to all the archives just yet :)) -- Jason Pruim Raoset Inc. Technology Manager MQC Specialist 3251 132nd ave Holland, MI, 49424-9337 www.raoset.com japruim@raoset.com

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