[prog] MySQL connections from PHP files - Close or keep it open for queries?

[Mary]

On Mon, May 02, 2005, Jacinta Richardson wrote:
>    Unfortunately placeholders are a fairly new addition to PHP and thus the 
> interface for them is not as clean as it could be.  As a result there is an 
> awful lot of PHP code out there which doesn't use them.  This includes 
> commercial software as well.  Without placeholders it becomes a *lot* 
> harder to ensure that your code is safe from SQL injection attacks.

Ah, I see you were using the term 'placeholder' in a PHP-specific way:
my earlier reply assumes that it's a generic thing, like using FIXME
comments on code you intend to replace/implement/fix later.

-Mary