Posted by Colin McKinnon on 02/17/07 13:36

Hi all,

I'm wondering if this is possible with PHP:

$query = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE afield='$something'";

has quite a different meaning from

$query = 'SELECT * FROM table WHERE afield=\'$something\'';

I'm trying to work out if it is possible to use the latter as a primitive
sort of data-binding (I know its not going to prevent injection). I would
create $query before the value of $something is finalised, then apply the
interpolation operation on $query to get it to substitute the variable at
that point.

Is there an easy way to do this with PHP?

TIA,

C.

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