.oO(Nick Craig-Wood) >Damon Getsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> PHP has great support for accessing a MySQL database, > >Actually I'd say PHP's mysql support is lacking a very important >feature. mysql_query() doesn't support parameters (or placeholders, >usually '?')
Where were you the last couple of years? It's lacking a lot more features, but that's not the fault of the MySQL extension, which is quite old. Meanwhile we have the improved MySQL extension and PDO. >It is not a big deal, but I've had it drummed into me to always use >parameters for user input and I was really suprised PHP didn't have >them. PHP supports them since _years_, you just have to choose the right database interface. Micha -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list