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Martin Fowler: ORM Hate
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I like ORM's because they prevent sql injection. Mostly. Sql injection is a really bad vuln that's nowhere near as ubiqitous as it used to be for every php app, and that's partly due to ORM's.
You don't need ORMs to prevent SQL injection. Prepared statements have existed for decades.
That's what I thought too: https://programming.dev/comment/22854391
But it seems to be possible to still do them wrong.
If you don't use the parameter functionality of prepared statements, yeah. That also means you don't use a prepared statement, you construct varying sql strings and prepare varying "prepared" statements.
It's a bit sad that sql injection is still a thing. It's been a known problem for decades, and developers keep itching to reinvent the vulnerability over and over...