Like I said, I'm not 'especially pleased' with any idea up until now. I'm certainly open to any other ideas.
Adam On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Hm. So your solution is "don't use LIKE"? I can't say I'm wild about > that. :-/ > > --Larry Garfield > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:49:52 -0400, "Adam Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Larry, > > > > I agree that having to escape values in a stored procedure does run > > counter > > to expectations. It's likely other developers have the potential for > > short-circuiting their LIKE conditions without realizing it. > > > > I've dealt with this issue, too, and haven't been especially pleased with > > any of the solutions I've undertaken. Recently, I've been avoiding LIKE > > conditions and using INSTR, LOCATE, CHARINDEX, etc. to avoid the > potential > > for unescaped wildcards. > > > > Adam > > > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Larry Garfield > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > >> > >> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:48:39 -0400, "Andrew Ballard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Larry Garfield > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:33:44 +0200, Per Jessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> >>> Larry Garfield wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>>> IIRC, the way in SQL to circumvent that is to convert "100%" into > >> >>>> "100%%". However, that does rather defeat the purpose of a prepared > >> >>>> statement if I have to do my own escaping anyway, does it not?=20 > >> >>> > >> >>> Depends on what you perceive the purpose of the prepared statement > > to > >> >>> be :-) In this context, I tend to think of performance only. Which > >> > is= > >> >>> > >> >>> generally why I can't be bothered with prepared statements in > > php.=20 > >> >> > >> >> Actually in most cases in PHP you don't get much performance. What > > you > >> > do get is added security, because prepared statements are cleaner than > >> > cleaner and more reliable than string escaping. Of course, then we > > run > >> > into the % problem above. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
