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It's true that I do have a degree of control over things here in that all of the software code is written by my hand and my hand only - and that the input comes almost entirely from form-input by users.

Part of my intention here, however, was to decide whether I would have to force myself to always send quoted or non-quoted variables to my functions and stick with that practice, or if I could very easily write my functions so that they could say "oh, this is already quoted so I'll use it as-is" and "this one isn't quoted, so I'll quote() first before applying it into the SQL query".

Also, doing some quote testing would probably suck as I allow HTML in the input (it's an auction site).

Since I was finally able to refine my abstraction layer to something very simple when it comes to the INSERT and UPDATES, I've decided to stick with the practice of _NEVER_ quote()'ing anything. I'll just pass everything to my Auction::DB class and let it do the work (I know, I should have done this in the first place, but I was looking for a solution outside of putting it in my DB class since I wasn't quite ready to roll it out yet).


Here is the solution I have used:

I have an sqlInsert() method in my Auction::DB class:

sub sqlInsert { my($self, $table, $data) = @_; my $names = join(", ", map { /^[_|-](.*)/; } keys %{$data}); my $pholders = join(', ', ('?') x keys %{$data}); $self->_sqlExecute("INSERT INTO $table ($names) VALUES($pholders)", +values %{$data}); } sub _sqlExecute { my ($self, $sql, @values) = @_; $self->_sqlConnect(); my $retval; eval { my $sth = $self->{_dbh}->prepare($sql); $retval = $sth->execute(@values); }; if ($@) {croak ($@ . "\nSQL: $sql\n" . Dumper(\@_));} return $retval; }


Then I call it like this (by the way, I use PostgreSQL but this should work with most DBs):

sub createNewAccount { my ($self, $fields) = @_; # Verify required fields. $self->_validateUsername($fields->{_USERNAME}); $self->_validateEmailAddress($fields->{_EMAIL_ADDRESS}); # Populate other required fields. $fields->{_PASSWORD} = $self->_makePassword(); $fields->{_CREATION_DATE} = 'now()'; } $self->sqlInsert('user_accounts',$fields); $self->sqlCommit; }


Now, I never need to concern myself with quoting again. And yes, I know I should have just done this in the first place, but I was looking to tidy up my existing code separately from my transition to a mod_perl/OO based re-write of the site (which I am actually in the process of doing right now).

I also understand that Perl is a horrible first language and it's a really bad idea to make Perl your first introduction to object oriented coding. However, I started my software in Perl five years ago, that's what it's in now, it's what I know the best (so far) and it's more important to maintain/improve the software and the site as it is now than to rewrite a 16,000+ line program in an entirely different (and new to me) language.

Fortunately, I've had Perlmonks to refer to as a lot of the pitfalls and questions I've encountered during this transition to OO have already been asked by others. :)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Test if string is already quote()'d? by Seumas
in thread Test if string is already quote()'d? by Seumas

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