Prepare delete_many IDs as placeholders and ignore non-positive integer IDs

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What

delete_many() now puts IDs into the DELETE ... IN (...) query as prepared placeholders instead of pasting them into the SQL string. The column's PHP type decides the placeholder:

• Integer columns (like the auto-increment id) use %d. Ints and numeric strings (42, '42') are accepted. Zero, negatives and anything that isn't a whole number are dropped. If nothing valid is left, it returns false and runs no query.
• Every other column uses %s, so the database wrapper escapes the value.

Column names now go through %i too. delete() calls delete_many(), so it gets the same fix without any changes of its own. For valid IDs the return values stay the same: the affected row count from delete_many() and true/false from delete().

Why

I found this while building the order line items table for Event Tickets. Two problems:

1. Negative IDs. Numeric IDs were cast with (int), so delete_many( [ -42 ] ) ran DELETE ... WHERE id IN (-42). That deletes nothing today. The trouble is on the calling side: a caller that sanitizes with absint() first turns -42 into 42 and deletes a real row. Negative and zero IDs are never valid for an integer ID column, so the library now rejects them.
2. Unescaped strings. Non-numeric values were wrapped in quotes and dropped straight into the SQL. delete_many( [ "it's" ], 'slug' ) throws a SQL syntax error, and a crafted value can change the WHERE clause. Against an integer id column, delete_many( [ '1 OR 1=1' ] ) deleted row 1 on main, because MySQL casts the quoted string to 1.

How it's tested

I added four wpunit tests to tests/wpunit/Traits/Custom_Table_Query_MethodsTest.php:

• Int and numeric-string IDs delete the right rows with the same return values. delete() still works.
• Zero and negative IDs, as ints or strings, delete nothing and return false. The same goes for delete().
• SQL-looking strings against the int id column delete nothing. A quote-injection string against the slug column matches 0 rows and deletes nothing.
• A custom $column still works, including a value with a quote in it (it's-quoted), which throws a SQL error on main.

slic run wpunit: the new tests (30 in that file) pass. The full suite is 101 tests and has one failure, BuilderTest::Should_update_table_when_version_changes. It fails the same way on main, so it isn't related to this change. composer test:analysis (phpstan) passes.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Bulk deletion now accepts numeric IDs, including zero and negative values, and converts them to integers. Non-numeric IDs are ignored, and duplicate IDs are removed before deletion.
  • Numeric IDs with fractional parts or values outside the integer range are converted to integers, which may affect which records are deleted.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for numeric and zero-padded IDs, duplicates, non-positive IDs, malformed values, and quoted values used with custom columns.

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delete_many now filters integer-column IDs with is_numeric, casts them to integers, and removes duplicates. Tests cover numeric and invalid IDs, duplicate IDs, and deletion by a custom column.

Changes

Bulk deletion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Normalize IDs and verify deletion behavior src/Schema/Traits/Custom_Table_Query_Methods.php, tests/wpunit/Traits/Custom_Table_Query_MethodsTest.php	For integer columns, delete_many casts numeric IDs to integers. It removes duplicate IDs for integer and non-integer columns. Tests cover duplicate and zero-padded IDs, non-positive and malformed IDs, and quoted values for a custom column.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: dpanta94

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A fractional ID can delete the wrong row. Validate IDs before casting and restore the no-valid-IDs behavior before merging.

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Other than small comments, where im just pointing out that i think you are doing too much, it looks really good.

Please amend based on the feedback and then let's bring this branch into our TEC work to test it out though before we merge into main here.

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Good work - feel free to ping me to help you get a new version out - once this branch has been proved to be working well on TEC.