Index: t3lib/class.t3lib_db.php
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--- t3lib/class.t3lib_db.php	(revision 6748)
+++ t3lib/class.t3lib_db.php	(working copy)
@@ -187,6 +187,23 @@
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Creates and executes an INSERT SQL-statement for $table with multiple rows.
+	 *
+	 * @param	string		Table name
+	 * @param	array		Field names
+	 * @param	array		Table rows. Each row should be an array with field values mapping to $fields
+	 * @param	string/array		See fullQuoteArray()
+	 * @return	pointer		MySQL result pointer / DBAL object
+	 */
+	public function exec_INSERTmultipleRows($table, array $fields, array $rows, $no_quote_fields = FALSE) {
+		$res = mysql_query($this->INSERTmultipleRows($table, $fields, $rows, $no_quote_fields), $this->link);
+		if ($this->debugOutput) {
+			$this->debug('exec_INSERTmultipleRows');
+		}
+		return $res;
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Creates and executes an UPDATE SQL-statement for $table where $where-clause (typ. 'uid=...') from the array with field/value pairs $fields_values.
 	 * Using this function specifically allow us to handle BLOB and CLOB fields depending on DB
 	 * Usage count/core: 50
@@ -413,6 +430,41 @@
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Creates an INSERT SQL-statement for $table with multiple rows.
+	 *
+	 * @param	string		Table name
+	 * @param	array		Field names
+	 * @param	array		Table rows. Each row should be an array with field values mapping to $fields
+	 * @param	string/array		See fullQuoteArray()
+	 * @return	string		Full SQL query for INSERT (unless $rows does not contain any elements in which case it will be false)
+	 */
+	public function INSERTmultipleRows($table, array $fields, array $rows, $no_quote_fields = FALSE) {
+			// Table and fieldnames should be "SQL-injection-safe" when supplied to this
+			// function (contrary to values in the arrays which may be insecure).
+		if (count($rows)) {
+				// Build query:
+			$query = 'INSERT INTO ' . $table .
+				'(' . implode(',', $fields) . ') VALUES ';
+
+			$rowSQL = array();
+			foreach ($rows as $row) {
+					// quote and escape values
+				$row = $this->fullQuoteArray($row, $table, $no_quote_fields);
+				$rowSQL[] = '( ' . implode(',', $row) . ') ';
+			}
+
+			$query .= implode(',', $rowSQL);
+
+				// Return query:
+			if ($this->debugOutput || $this->store_lastBuiltQuery) {
+				$this->debug_lastBuiltQuery = $query;
+			}
+
+			return $query;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Creates an UPDATE SQL-statement for $table where $where-clause (typ. 'uid=...') from the array with field/value pairs $fields_values.
 	 * Usage count/core: 6
 	 *