place holders in strings with var at end

[phazei]

What's that thing called that looks something like this:

$data = array('red','yellow','purple')
echo f("Apples are %, Bananas are %, Grapes are % ", $data);

Isn't there something that does stuff like that that I can use for protection for MySQL db queries? That's what I wanted to use it for.

I can't find it or remember what it's called.

[PHP_Chimp]

are you thinking of sprintf [uk2.php.net]?

[phazei]

Thank you :)

[coopster]

You may also consider the MySQLi extension [php.net] as it supports prepared statements.