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Sun, 28 July 2013 17:56

Pierre Jaury
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> writes:

> On 28/07/13 16:44, Luuk wrote:
>>
>> I was not trying to contradict anything. I was reading the post
>> (from Pierre) and was under the impression that i SHOULD use 'b' in
>> bind_param.
>>
>> I was using 's' in bind_param, and my testprog works ok
>>
>> These 2 lines made /me confused ;)
>>
>>> I'd really like to know why..
>>>
>>
>> Me likes to know why to
>>
> Ok. Lets take a step back and summarise - and feel free to correct me
> if I am wrong.
>
> 1/. Mysql can store anything in a BLOB.
> 2/. Using prepared statements binary data in a 'string' variable will
> be stored correctly via the PHP API.
> 3/. What about un-prepared statements like:
>
> (getting data out is not a major issue)
>
> $blob=file_get_contents('mygraffix.png')
>
> mysqli_query($link, sprintf("insert into mytable set
> myblob='%s'",$blob));

This were string escaping is required
(eg. mysqli_real_escape_string($blob)). Rule of thumb: if you are using
uncontrolled data, and more generally any string that is not explicitely
declared in the current scope and that might, for one reason or another,
interfere with the MySQL query language, you MUST escape it before
constructing your text query.

> Presumably that will barf at some point because the PHP itself will
> get confused about where the string begins and ends?
>
> Or does it? I suppose its down to the way PHP parses the query string
> and sends it.

PHP does not parse anything, in that very case, PHP simply builds the
query string by running sprintf then sends the result to the MySQL C
API, as a string. I am not sure how PHP will handle or how the API will
react if you pass a query containing null bytes for instance, but that
is out of the question because you did things properly and did escape
every piece of data that required escaping.

I think you are confusing many notions here, even more than I do
according to Jerry :) As long as you escape your strings when building
text queries, PHP will pass them to the MySQL API, which will send them
to the server, which won't bother parsing and executing your query.

You may, on the other hand, use bound parameters, which simply do not
require you to escape the parameter string because it is processed
completely separately from the sql syntax.

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		is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 27 July 2013 09:31
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sat, 27 July 2013 09:45
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 27 July 2013 11:08
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sat, 27 July 2013 13:28
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 27 July 2013 14:36
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sat, 27 July 2013 15:22
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sat, 27 July 2013 15:34
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 27 July 2013 23:44
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sun, 28 July 2013 12:54
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: J.O. Aho on Sun, 28 July 2013 13:35
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 28 July 2013 13:39
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sun, 28 July 2013 15:25
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 28 July 2013 19:05
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sun, 28 July 2013 19:16
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 29 July 2013 00:46
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Daniel Pitts on Mon, 29 July 2013 16:17
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 29 July 2013 18:01
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 29 July 2013 23:04
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 30 July 2013 01:02
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Mon, 29 July 2013 18:34
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 27 July 2013 13:52
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sat, 27 July 2013 13:58
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 27 July 2013 14:36
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 27 July 2013 14:43
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Pierre Jaury on Sat, 27 July 2013 18:10
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 27 July 2013 23:52
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Denis McMahon on Sat, 27 July 2013 18:38
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Pierre Jaury on Sat, 27 July 2013 20:25
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sat, 27 July 2013 20:59
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 27 July 2013 23:50
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sun, 28 July 2013 15:44
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Pierre Jaury on Sun, 28 July 2013 16:01
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 28 July 2013 16:43
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Sun, 28 July 2013 18:31
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 28 July 2013 16:39
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Pierre Jaury on Sun, 28 July 2013 17:56
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 28 July 2013 18:14
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 28 July 2013 19:10
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Norman Peelman on Mon, 29 July 2013 01:13
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 27 July 2013 23:46
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 27 July 2013 23:56
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Pierre Jaury on Sun, 28 July 2013 01:55
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 28 July 2013 02:11
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 27 July 2013 23:58
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Norman Peelman on Sat, 27 July 2013 13:35
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 27 July 2013 13:56
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Norman Peelman on Sun, 28 July 2013 00:01
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 27 July 2013 14:33
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 27 July 2013 13:57
		I've always used GD, but never been 100% happy with it (Was: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data?) By: J.O. Aho on Sat, 27 July 2013 16:09
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Luuk on Mon, 29 July 2013 18:37
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: J.O. Aho on Tue, 30 July 2013 05:31
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 30 July 2013 06:08
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Scott Johnson on Tue, 30 July 2013 12:35
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: J.O. Aho on Tue, 30 July 2013 15:53
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 30 July 2013 16:37
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: tony on Tue, 30 July 2013 09:35
		Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? By: Denis McMahon on Wed, 31 July 2013 04:56

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