I am using MeekroDB in a PHP project. For some queries, I need to pass arbitrary field names to sort by. There are NO examples of ORDER BY clauses on the meekro site.
How can I safely pass field names and avoid SQL injection vulnerabilities? I realize I could check every field name with a list of valid fields beforehand, but I'm trying to make this code more generalized as a basic "get" function: function get(Array $filters, Array $sort_by)
Will the %b placeholder (backticks) be sufficient to protect against arbitrary code injection when passing field names?
For example:
SELECT * FROM table1 ORDER BY %b
Or for multiple fields:
SELECT * FROM table1 ORDER BY %lb
Is this safe?
Also, how can I then include the DESC or ASC modifiers arbitrarily as needed?