Re: [off] PHP: a fractal of bad design

From: Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:46:57 +0000
Subject: Re: [off] PHP: a fractal of bad design
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Hey Lester,

On 4/11/12 3:29 AM, Lester Caine wrote:

That is almost archaic it's self ... It should be replaced with a pointer to using parameters ( no we do not need 'prepared statements', just parameters ). One of the first things I implement on any code that I'm porting. Does away with any agro over escaping strings and is totally save 'injection' wise.
While I generally agree, 'just parameters' does have it's limitations. Sometimes there are special character sequences that can be exploited to escape out of a quoted value in a SQL string. Offhand, this comes to mind about MySQL: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=8378 -ralph

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