mysql_real_escape_string necessary when using prepared statements

[Pugi!]

It is by accident that I noticed that I forgot to use
mysql_real_escape_string in part of my webapp.
I tested input with following text : Hélène 51°56'12'' http://www.mysite.org/folder
3 functions worked correctly and 1 failed:
The one that failed didn't have mysql_real_escape_string and neither
did 2 of the ones that worked: in those 2 I used prepared sql
statements (PEAR DB package). The other that I used was with
mysql_real_escape_string.

So my question: can you do without mysql_real_escape_string when using
prepared sql statements with PEAR DB-package or PDO ?

For PDO apparently you can when you use quote() and prepared
statements.

Pugi

[Jerry Stuckle]

Pugi! wrote:

It is by accident that I noticed that I forgot to use
mysql_real_escape_string in part of my webapp.
I tested input with following text : Hélène 51°56'12'' http://www.mysite.org/folder
3 functions worked correctly and 1 failed:
The one that failed didn't have mysql_real_escape_string and neither
did 2 of the ones that worked: in those 2 I used prepared sql
statements (PEAR DB package). The other that I used was with
mysql_real_escape_string.

So my question: can you do without mysql_real_escape_string when using
prepared sql statements with PEAR DB-package or PDO ?

For PDO apparently you can when you use quote() and prepared
statements.

Pugi

True, prepared statements don't need mysql_real_escape_string().

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[Michael Fesser]

..oO(Pugi!)

>So my question: can you do without mysql_real_escape_string when using
prepared sql statements with PEAR DB-package or PDO ?

Yes. That's one reason for using prepared statements - you just tell the
DMBS what kind of data you will send to it, and the server itself takes
care of the proper encoding/escaping if necessary.

>For PDO apparently you can when you use quote() and prepared
statements.

Forget this method - it kinda defeats the purpose of prepared
statements. From the PDO->quote() manual:

| If you are using this function to build SQL statements, you are
| _strongly_ recommended to use PDO->prepare() to prepare SQL statements
| with bound parameters instead of using PDO->quote() to interpolate
| user input into a SQL statement. [...]

Micha