I am thrilled to have so many comments. Thank you dkubb.

I've got taint checking on now, and I use $q=CGI->new. Eventually, I want to write a function that dies gracefully, printing an error to the web browser before it dies. I don't think I want to use CGI::Carp "fatalsToBrowser" as that gives too much information to the nasty people that might be using the stuff. I've changed the sql statement and untainted $criteria, so it has to be only letters and numbers. It was a bit of a pain getting the place holder to work, but eventually...

I don't take such a long critique personally. I'm quite happy to recieve positive and constructive comments. Thank you again.

Unfortunatly, now that it's working so well, I've discovered a bug and need some help. The data is comming from a paradox database. Paradox is able to export it to CSV but isn't smart enough to escape the quote in the titles. I've been looking for a regex on the monastery to add escapes, but haven't found one yet. Do you have any suggestions?

In reply to Re: (dkubb) Re: (2) A Little review for a little DBI and CGI? by coolmichael
in thread A Little review for a little DBI and CGI? by coolmichael

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