Escaping quote characters might work OK in MySQL, but it is at best only a database-dependent solution. Take a look at Oracle, instead of double-quotes, single-quotes are used. And instead of being escaped, they are simply doubled (e.g. ' becomes ''). You'd have to write an entirely different mechanism to untaint data bound for Oracle...and another one for other different database implementations.
This is why placeholders are a better solution. For one, they keep you in a database-independent environment (which makes sense, since you're using DBI). For another, they insure you don't have to worry about accidentally missing the escaping of some data. On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 22:36, Paul Tinsley wrote: > I don't believe this is a true statement. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
