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Re: New php project from scractch, PDO or psycopg?

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On 24/02/2026 09.41, ^Bart wrote:

> I work in a company 100% unix like, we don't have MS o.s., and our 
> framework works with psycopg on debian13+venv.
> 
> I'm working to a personal cms written from scratch alwasy on debian13 
> with php8.4, postgresql18 and nginx, now I'm using psycopg so I have a 
> different user for the php and another one for the venv etc.
> 
> I heard psycopg for security reasons and also for the performance is 
> better than pdo, tell me what do you think about it! :)

I think this is more about layering the application, the frontend I 
guess is written in PHP while the backend is written in Python. I would 
keep that separation and only allow the backend to access the database, 
also keep it on a such level that the backend don't trust the data from 
the frontend, that all data is validated before use, sure the frontend 
shouldn't trust the users and validate their input.

Sure you could have been able to write everything in one or the other 
language (python can do both frontend and backend, as you can do with 
php too even less common), but I doubt you have the power to decide this.

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  //Aho

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Re: New php project from scractch, PDO or psycopg? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2026-02-24 15:39 +0100
  Re: New PHP project from scratch, PDO or psycopg? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-24 20:29 +0000
  Re: New php project from scractch, PDO or psycopg? ^Bart <none@none.it> - 2026-03-07 11:17 +0100

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