in reply to Re: DBI Placeholders
in thread DBI Placeholders

if your DB supports it, used named placeholders ( like :DATA )

Why not learn a db-independent method like the "?" place-holders described above?

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Re: Re: Re: DBI Placeholders
by geektron (Curate) on Apr 10, 2001 at 05:44 UTC
    there's no reason to not know both ways of attacking the situation. named parameters ( even placeholders ) make code easier to read, and therefore to maintain.

    if you don't want to do it, no one is forcing anything.