Re: Fwd: MySQLi extension basic examples

On 28.11.2020 at 18:08, Kamil Tekiela wrote: > I would like to hear your opinions about the following page in the PHP manual: > https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.examples-basic.php > > Currently, this is the only "example" apart from the quick start > guide. There is a whole section > https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.examples.php which > suggests that > there were more or that there was meant to be more examples, however > there is only that one example now. > > People have complained about the quality of this example for a number > of years, including myself. The page does not show best practices, > encourages SQL injection, poor error handling, and lacks prepared > statement example. As a result, it does more harm than good. Why not take the opportunity, and *add* an example which does basically the same, but uses prepared statements, and other best practices? Regards, Christoph