WP e-Commerce is a popular ecommerce plugin for WordPress. It is available for free download from the WordPress plugin repository, or you can install it from the convenient plugin installation tab on your WordPress-based website’s administrative back-end. For this review I tested WP e-Commerce version 3.8.13.3. My test environment is running a clean installation of WordPress […]
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Are prepared statements slower than escaped strings?
The debate rages on within the programming community: should you use PHP prepared statements to prevent SQL injection attacks against a MySQL database, or is the performance hit so substantial that you’d always be better off simply escaping your inputs? The background Prepared statements are more complicated to write: after establishing the database connection, you […]