im working on this. contact me via email if you'd like to help... Andrew Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 5.1.0.14.0.20011026220832.00a20c40@pop-server">news:5.1.0.14.0.20011026220832.00a20c40@pop-server... > > for example in PERL DBD::mysql you can prepare statements like so: > > $sql = "update user_list set first_name = ? where id = ?" > $han = $dbh->prepare($sql); > > $han->execute('andrew',1); > $han->execute('bill',2); > .... > > this is a very useful thing that's implemented in a lot of different > languages (PERL, Java... )and i thought people might get a lot of use out > of it in php... > it abstracts the details of escaping strings, enclosing them in single > quotes, and type checking from the developer to make things easier. it > also speeds up execution in some circumstances. >
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