Are there any security benefits of using PHP PDO instead of the mysql_connect(), etc.?
Are there any security benefits of using PHP PDO instead of the mysql_connect(), etc.?
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Are there any security benefits of using PHP PDO instead of the mysql_connect(), etc.?
No. There is no security benefit to PDO vs the MySQL extension (except for what Murphy’s law has taught us, which applies to both). Both will render input safe by escaping the same characters.
However, PDO has other advantages:
These are generally considered as the most important.