PDOStatement->bindParam
What the bindValue() docs fail to explain without reading them _very_ carefully is that bindParam() is passed to PDO byref - whereas bindValue() isn't.
Thus with bindValue() you can do something like $stmt->bindValue(":something", "bind this"); whereas with bindParam() it will fail because you can't pass a string by reference, for example.
PDOStatement->bindValue
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PECL pdo:1.0-1.0.3)
PDOStatement->bindValue — Binds a value to a parameter
Description
Binds a value to a corresponding named or question mark placeholder in the SQL statement that was use to prepare the statement.
Parameters
- parameter
-
Parameter identifier. For a prepared statement using named placeholders, this will be a parameter name of the form :name. For a prepared statement using question mark placeholders, this will be the 1-indexed position of the parameter.
- value
-
The value to bind to the parameter.
- data_type
-
Explicit data type for the parameter using the PDO::PARAM_* constants. Defaults to PHP native type.
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
Examples
Example #1 Execute a prepared statement with named placeholders
<?php
/* Execute a prepared statement by binding PHP variables */
$calories = 150;
$colour = 'red';
$sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT name, colour, calories
FROM fruit
WHERE calories < :calories AND colour = :colour');
$sth->bindValue(':calories', $calories, PDO::PARAM_INT);
$sth->bindValue(':colour', $colour, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$sth->execute();
?>
Example #2 Execute a prepared statement with question mark placeholders
<?php
/* Execute a prepared statement by binding PHP variables */
$calories = 150;
$colour = 'red';
$sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT name, colour, calories
FROM fruit
WHERE calories < ? AND colour = ?');
$sth->bindValue(1, $calories, PDO::PARAM_INT);
$sth->bindValue(2, $colour, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$sth->execute();
?>
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User Contributed NotesPDOStatement->bindValue
streaky at mybrokenlogic dot com
08-Jan-2008 10:20
08-Jan-2008 10:20
joe at dsforge dot net
01-Oct-2007 02:46
01-Oct-2007 02:46
note that bindParam() doesn't let you bind a table name into a prepared statement, whereas this can be done with bindValue()...
ts//tpdada//art//pl
15-Dec-2006 02:34
15-Dec-2006 02:34
For bind whole array at once
<?php
function PDOBindArray(&$poStatement, &$paArray){
foreach ($paArray as $k=>$v){
@$poStatement->bindValue(':'.$k,$v);
} // foreach
} // function
// example
$stmt = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO tExample (id,value) VALUES (:id,:value)");
$taValues = array(
'id' => '1',
'value' => '2'
); // array
PDOBindArray($stmt,$taValues);
$stmt->execute();
?>
Chris L
26-May-2006 11:43
26-May-2006 11:43
I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but you can't use a placeholder more than once. I assumed (wrongly) that bindValue() would replace ALL instances of a given placeholder with a value. For example:
<?php
// $db is a PDO object
$stmt = $db->prepare
('
insert into
TableA
(
ID,
Name,
Foo
)
select
null,
:Name,
:Foo
from
TableA
where
Foo = :Foo
');
$stmt->bindValue(':Name', 'john doe');
$stmt->bindValue(':Foo', 'foo');
$stmt->execute();
?>
This apparently won't work - you must have separate :SelectFoo and :WhereFoo. I'm using PHP 5.0.4, MySQL 5.0.14, and PDO version 1.0.2.