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[Jeff Siegel]

Change was made.

David Mintz wrote:

> 
> DB::quote() (and I quote) "[q]uotes a string database-dependent, so it can
> be safely used in a query." They mean, it quotes it correctly for the
> backend db that you connected to when you called connect() and got a $db
> object. They further say the currently supported database backends are
> MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Mini SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle
> 7/8/8i, ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), SyBase, Informix, FrontBase.
> 
> prepare() and execute() perform more or less comparably to their
> counterparts in JDBC and Perl DBI.
> http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.database.db.intro-execute.php
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Jeff Siegel wrote:
> 
> 
>>P.S. Since I don't use PEAR, the question is, which one of the functions
>>are used for escaping data? All three? Since the major focus is on
>>MySQL, is there one that is MySQL-specific?
>>
>>David Mintz wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If the comment period isn't over yet, I have $.02.
>>>
>>>You might mention that if you happen to be using PEAR DB library, you
>>>might as well use quote(), or prepare() and execute(), which take care of
>>>correctly quoting the values represented by ? in parameterized SQL
>>>statements.
>>>
>>>
>>>---
>>>David Mintz
>>>http://davidmintz.org/
>>>
>>>        "Anybody else got a problem with Webistics?" -- Sopranos 24:17
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