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

[Jacinta Richardson]

Mary wrote:
> 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.

:)  It's more a database programming specific way.

Your previous point is definately a good idea though.

     Jacinta

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