People are ranting and raving about security in PHP.

Depending on who you ask the security issues in PHP can be the cause of various "problems".

Some people feel PHP just sucks and breeds bad and poor programmers. Others will talk all day about code injection, sql injection, session fixation on and on and on, there are 101 reasons why your script could be insecure right now!!!

Is security important? Yes it is but if making your application more secure hurts performance and the users exp there is something wrong. You need to step back and rethink your approach.

Cyberlot Password Manager was a perl script I worked with back in 2000.

I needed a way for users to manage there passwords through a web interface but the web interface was not on the same server as the accounts.

Its a old script not even sure if it still works but still have people looking for it today so I try to keep it up on my website.

Here is a quick example I threw together to extend PDO so you can use 2 seperate database connections.

This extends PDO and only connects to the database when the first query is run. This way if you never use the database connection no time is wasted trying to connect.

There are articles all over about ways to ensure your PHP application is secure, ways to prevent MySQL injection attacks and about how PHP is a poor lang due to all these exploits out in the world.

Theres a point where a person programming has to give up slight performance here and there to ensure the security of there application and there database, but what if you could increase security while at the same time improving your applications scalability??

Increase security and increased scalability at the same time may sound like a dream you had one night but its not a dream its possible, of course its hard to find a solution to anything without some drawbacks and this solution does have some minor drawbacks but in the long run they are far outweighed by the improvements.

The documentation has been improved slightly. Changed from explode to regex handling of input for future growth/features.