An example of creating a connection using PDO is: $dbConnection = new PDO('mysql:dbname=dbtest host=127.0.0.1 charset=utf8', 'user', 'password') To fix this you have to disable the emulation of prepared statements. Note that when using PDO to access a MySQL database real prepared statements are not used by default. If you're connecting to a database other than MySQL, there is a driver-specific second option that you can refer to (for example, pg_prepare() and pg_execute() for PostgreSQL). $stmt->bind_param('s', $name) // 's' specifies the variable type => 'string' Using MySQLi (for MySQL): $stmt = $dbConnection->prepare('SELECT * FROM employees WHERE name = ?') Using PDO (for any supported database driver): $stmt = $pdo->prepare('SELECT * FROM employees WHERE name = :name') You basically have two options to achieve this: This way it is impossible for an attacker to inject malicious SQL. These are SQL statements that are sent to and parsed by the database server separately from any parameters. It is possible to create SQL statement with correctly formatted data parts, but if you don't fully understand the details, you should always use prepared statements and parameterized queries. The correct way to avoid SQL injection attacks, no matter which database you use, is to separate the data from SQL, so that data stays data and will never be interpreted as commands by the SQL parser.

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