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[Rolan Yang]

Silly but true story/word of caution:

If you add a "delete record" button, be sure your admin page is 
protected with a password and also add a robots.txt. A few years back, I 
had a unprotected admin page (security through obscurity, heh!). 
Googlebot found the page (linked from an automated daily web stats page) 
and proceeded to spider all the [delete] links ultimately wiping out all 
the records. Luckily I was able to restore from a nightly backup. It was 
quite embarrasing to be owned by a search engine.

~Rolan

Freeman, Joshua wrote:

> So,
>
> I can now create a page that reaches into the database, grabs all the 
> records and then displays the first 10 records (or however many I want 
> to set it to) and displays buttons for the next 10, etc... 
>
> I also have a form so that people can add new records to the database.
>
> going back to the issue of displaying records in the database, I want 
> set up the ability to bring up a record-edit form by clicking on the 
> name of the Botanical garden... any pointers?
>
> J.
>
> Joshua S. Freeman
> Director, Information Technology, NYBG
> v: 718 817 8937 m: 347 392 2560
> jfreeman at nybg dot org
>
>  
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