Re: SQL injection

From: Yonatan Ben-Nes <da(at)canaan(dot)co(dot)il>
To: Hannes Dorbath <light(at)theendofthetunnel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL injection
Date: 2005-11-03 12:19:54
Message-ID: 436A006A.3040709@canaan.co.il
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Hannes Dorbath wrote:
> On 03.11.2005 04:12, Alex Turner wrote:
>
>> I would have to say that for security purposes - I would want magic
>> quotes _on_ rather than off for the whole reasons of SQL Injection
>> that we already talked about.
>
>
> magic_quotes is evil and does if anything only prevent the simplest
> cases of SQL injections. Keep it turned off. Use
> http://php.net/pg_query_params exclusively to build secure queries..
>
>

The problem with pg_query_params is that you will be forced to use an RC
version of PHP.... I don't know about you but I think that for
production sites I prefer to use the final versions.

I think that prepared statements is the best solution here even if its
encumbering everything alittle...

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