Is using prepared statements necessary? [duplicate]

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Prepared statements offer excellent protection against SQL injection.

In addition to SQL injection protection, prepared statements offer reduced load on the database server when the same query is to executed multiple times, such as in an INSERT loop. The statement is only compiled once by the RDBMS rather than needing to be compiled each time as it would in a mysql_query() call.

Different APIs require varying amounts of code to execute a prepared statement. I find that PDO can be a little less verbose than MySQLi, if for example your situation permits the use of implicit parameter binding inside the execute() call. This only works, if all your params can be evaluated as strings though.

// PDO implicit binding example:
// Not many lines of code if the situation allows for it
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE col1=? AND col2=? AND col3=?");
$stmt->execute(array($val1, $val2, $val3));

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