Re: finding compile time errors

..oO(Jeff)

If I name the included file 'my_functions.php' and put it in the web
path, wouldn't some of this be visible from the web. I just want nothing
to happen if someone hits http://my_domain.com/my_includes.php. Perhaps
I'm worrying about nothing...

The best and most secure way is to store such files outside the document
root, so that they can't be accessed by a URL.

How does PHP handle placeholders in MySQL?

I'm used to doing this:

$sql='SELECT some_field FROM some_table WHERE another_field = ? AND
other_field = ?';

When you do this (at least in perl), you don't have to worry about
SQL insertion.

I can't seem to find this, and had stumbled across an example
earlier. Perhaps I should break this question out in a new post...

Have a look at PDO. It's the recommended and most flexible database
interface (installed and enabled by default). The keyword to look for
is "prepared statements".

Micha
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