curiouslearn I agree it's a good idea to learn as much as you can about the underlying database.
That said, you need to learn about sql injection and perhaps other MySQL attack vectors before making your application public. See, for example xkcd.com/327/ On Friday, August 17, 2012 12:17:48 AM UTC-4, curiouslearn wrote: > > Hello pbreit, > > Thanks, I will look into that. After posting I realized, I have the same > question for css style files and js files. Where can I store those? Can I > just store them in one application, and call them using URL() function? Is > that the best way, or is there something better? > > I am new to tools and technologies related to web-development (MySQL) > being one of them. For some reason I have this feeling that it is important > to have some basic knowledge of SQL and to learn how to handle some > database (in this case MySQL) using the standard commands it provides. > Hence, for practice I decided to make my apps using raw SQL. > > Thanks again for your response. Hope you or someone can suggest something > for css/js files. > > Thank you. > > On Friday, August 17, 2012 12:05:59 AM UTC-4, pbreit wrote: >> >> I guess site-packages: >> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/4?search=site-packages >> >> But why oh why aren't you using DAL? >> > --
