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Note Submitter: orrd101 at gmail dot com ---- Despite the recommendation above that you are "strongly recommended" to use PDO::prepare(), using PDO::quote() with PDO::query() is significantly faster than using prepared statements (unless you're submitting many identical queries in a sequence). Test data from several sources shows about a 2-3x speed penalty for using prepared queries if you are only submitting a single query, and prepared queries only have a speed advantage when you are submitting thousands of queries from prepared statement at once. It's also more convenient since less lines of code are required and you don't have to deal with the challenge of keeping all your ?'s properly ordered to match a separate parameter list as you do with prepared statements. So don't let the wording of the description scare you away from using this method.