What are the potential pitfalls of sending data to different PHP scripts for different actions like reading, updating, and deleting?

When sending data to different PHP scripts for different actions like reading, updating, and deleting, one potential pitfall is the lack of consistency and organization in your codebase. This can lead to duplication of code, difficulty in maintaining and updating the scripts, and potential security vulnerabilities if proper validation and sanitation are not consistently applied across all scripts. 

// Instead of having separate PHP scripts for different actions, consider using a single PHP script with a switch statement to handle different actions based on a parameter passed in the request.

$action = $_GET['action'];

switch ($action) {
    case 'read':
        // Code to handle reading data
        break;
    case 'update':
        // Code to handle updating data
        break;
    case 'delete':
        // Code to handle deleting data
        break;
    default:
        // Handle invalid action
        break;
}

Keywords

data handling PHP scripts security vulnerabilities SQL injection code duplication

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