This is probably pretty primitive for Perl programming, but I code my SQL like this:

$sth = $db_handle->prepare("select foo from bar where id = ?") 
  or die( $db_handle->errstr );

$id = 17; ## or whatever

$sth->execute( $id ) or die ( $sth->errstr() );

$baz = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();

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I'm working more and more in PHP in a current job and I see nothing like that in the code I'm working with, no binding, just raw SQL commands constructed by variable/string concatenation and fed direct to mysql_query().

What's the professional way to do this in PHP?

In reply to Monks who also work in PHP, help me upgrade my SQL code? by Cody Fendant

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