On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Warren Vail warren@vailtech.net wrote:
Not sure what you mean by generic, and never used the db_placeholders function, but this should work;
$skillnames = array("PHP", "HTML","SQL"); $tblname = "resubmt_skills"; $query = sprintf("SELECT skillid FROM %s WHERE skillname in ('%s')", $tblname, "'".implode("', '",$skillnames)."'"); //execute and fetch query results here
not real elegant, but nothing is as elegant as the solution that works and maintainers can understand.
This may work, but is _wrong_.
Please read
http://heine.familiedeelstra.com/a-security-vulnerability-waiting-to-happen
Thanks, Greg