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Hi Ahmed and others...

I see you say we can use hooks to encrypt and decrypt data.

I would like your advice on this. What have you done if I may ask to encrypt data? Many of us have asked for this feature and I can understand why you don't want to include it as it is after all a complete subject on its own, but your help and input would be appreciated.

If I understand the logic:
data is held in the database as encrypted using standard ASCII->before being read and written to it passes through a hook set of commands/routine and presents the user with the decrypted data...

Won't this cause excessive processing?

Thanks
DrKnow

Yep ... your guess is correct. Encryption works by encrypting data before storing it into the database (through the before_insert and before_update hooks), and decrypted (using the init hook) before reading it. This might indeed require a lot of processing. So, if the application you're writing requires that level of security (for example to encrypt credit card data, or for a banking application .. etc), you'd need to use a server with enough processing power to handle the load.