[isf-wifidog] MySQL support

[Mina Naguib]

On 30-May-05, at 5:44 PM, Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux wrote:


> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:07:42PM -0400, Mina Naguib wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Just as an aside here, I'm starting to get the hunch we're may be
>> running into some PHP awkwardnesses.  I'd be happy to be enlightened
>> to otherwise.
>>
>>
>
>     PHP gives you the MySQL C API and nothing else. The C API doesn't
> implement the features you mention. Sure you're not thinking about  
> Perl's
> DBI? ;-)
>

Perl's DBI encourages the use of placeholders (after all, who wants  
to worry about escaping/SQL injection attacks/etc) however the  
placeholder functionality is often provided by the DB drivers and are  
not specific to Perl or DBI.

Placeholders are also sometimes called markers.  I haven't played  
with MySQL's C API but I believe mysql_bind_param() here:
http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.mysql.com/doc/en/ 
C_API_Prepared_statements_function_overview.html

is the placeholders binding implementation.