Let's say I want to show a full list of awards with type="color":
Awards Type 2013 Winner
====== ==== ===========
Blue Award color Tom
Red Award color
Green Award color Dan
To achieve this result I could have a query in Laravel like this:
$year = '2013';
$awards = DB::table('awards')
->leftJoin('winners', function($join) use ($year)
{
$join->on('awards.id','=','winners.award_id');
$join->on('winners.year','=',DB::raw("'".$year."'"));
}
->where('awards.type','color')
->get();
If you output the SQL that Laravel generates you will see that only the WHERE clause is parameterized and $year in the ON clause is left vulnerable to sql injection if I get it from an untrusted source. Also the query's caching potential is reduced because $year will change often. Note: In case you were thinking that I just add the second left join condition to the WHERE of the query, these are not the same.
Any ideas on how to get the $year part of the query parameterized?