Note that if you're using a question mark as a placeholder for a string value, you don't surround it with quotation marks in the MySQL query.
For example, do this:
mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, "SELECT * FROM foo WHERE foo.Date > ?");
Do not do this:
mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, "SELECT * FROM foo WHERE foo.Date > '?'");
If you put quotation marks around a question mark in the query, then PHP doesn't recognize the question mark as a placeholder, and then when you try to use mysqli_stmt_bind_param(), it gives an error to the effect that you have the wrong number of parameters.
The lack of quotation marks around a string placeholder is implicit in the official example on this page, but it's not explicitly stated in the docs, and I had trouble figuring it out, so figured it was worth posting.
mysqli_stmt::prepare
mysqli_stmt_prepare
(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
mysqli_stmt::prepare -- mysqli_stmt_prepare — Prepares an SQL statement for execution
Description
Object-oriented style
Procedural style
Prepares a statement for execution. The query must consist of a single SQL statement.
The statement template can contain zero or more question mark
(?) parameter markers—also called placeholders.
The parameter markers must be bound to application variables using
mysqli_stmt_bind_param() before executing the statement.
Note:
In the case where a statement is passed to mysqli_stmt_prepare() that is longer than
max_allowed_packetof the server, the returned error codes are different depending on whether you are using MySQL Native Driver (mysqlnd) or MySQL Client Library (libmysqlclient). The behavior is as follows:
mysqlndon Linux returns an error code of 1153. The error message meansgot a packet bigger than.max_allowed_packetbytes
mysqlndon Windows returns an error code 2006. This error message meansserver has gone away.
libmysqlclienton all platforms returns an error code 2006. This error message meansserver has gone away.
Parameters
-
statement -
Procedural style only: A mysqli_stmt object returned by mysqli_stmt_init().
-
query -
The query, as a string. It must consist of a single SQL statement.
The SQL statement may contain zero or more parameter markers represented by question mark (
?) characters at the appropriate positions.Note:
The markers are legal only in certain places in SQL statements. For example, they are permitted in the
VALUES()list of anINSERTstatement (to specify column values for a row), or in a comparison with a column in aWHEREclause to specify a comparison value. However, they are not permitted for identifiers (such as table or column names).
Return Values
Returns true on success or false on failure.
Errors/Exceptions
If mysqli error reporting is enabled (MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR) and the requested operation fails,
a warning is generated. If, in addition, the mode is set to MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT,
a mysqli_sql_exception is thrown instead.
Examples
Example #1 mysqli_stmt::prepare() example
Object-oriented style
<?php
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
$city = "Amersfoort";
/* create a prepared statement */
$stmt = $mysqli->stmt_init();
$stmt->prepare("SELECT District FROM City WHERE Name=?");
/* bind parameters for markers */
$stmt->bind_param("s", $city);
/* execute query */
$stmt->execute();
/* bind result variables */
$stmt->bind_result($district);
/* fetch value */
$stmt->fetch();
printf("%s is in district %s\n", $city, $district);Procedural style
<?php
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
$city = "Amersfoort";
/* create a prepared statement */
$stmt = mysqli_stmt_init($link);
mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, "SELECT District FROM City WHERE Name=?");
/* bind parameters for markers */
mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "s", $city);
/* execute query */
mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
/* bind result variables */
mysqli_stmt_bind_result($stmt, $district);
/* fetch value */
mysqli_stmt_fetch($stmt);
printf("%s is in district %s\n", $city, $district);The above examples will output:
Amersfoort is in district Utrecht
See Also
- mysqli_stmt_init() - Initializes a statement and returns an object for use with mysqli_stmt_prepare
- mysqli_stmt_execute() - Executes a prepared statement
- mysqli_stmt_fetch() - Fetch results from a prepared statement into the bound variables
- mysqli_stmt_bind_param() - Binds variables to a prepared statement as parameters
- mysqli_stmt_bind_result() - Binds variables to a prepared statement for result storage
- mysqli_stmt_get_result() - Gets a result set from a prepared statement as a mysqli_result object
- mysqli_stmt_close() - Closes a prepared statement
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User Contributed Notes 9 notes
logos-php at kith dot org ¶
12 years ago
logos-php at kith dot orgpp ¶
12 years ago
Turns out you can't directly use a prepared statement for a query that has a placeholder in an IN() clause.
There are ways around that (such as constructing a string that consists of n question marks separated by commas, then using that set of placeholders in the IN() clause), but you can't just say IN (?).
This is a MySQL restriction rather than a PHP restriction, but it's not really documented in the MySQL docs either, so I figured it was worth mentioning here.
(Btw, turns out someone else had previously posted the info that I put in my previous comment, about not using quotation marks. Sorry for the repeat; not sure how I missed the earlier comment.)
ndungi at gmail dot com ¶
15 years ago
The `prepare` , `bind_param`, `bind_result`, `fetch` result, `close` stmt cycle can be tedious at times. Here is an object that does all the mysqli mumbo jumbo for you when all you want is a select leaving you to the bare essential `preparedSelect` on a prepared stmt. The method returns the result set as a 2D associative array with the `select`ed columns as keys. I havent done sufficient error-checking and it also may have some bugs. Help debug and improve on it.
I used the bible.sql db from http://www.biblesql.net/sites/biblesql.net/files/bible.mysql.gz.
Baraka tele!
============================
<?php
class DB
{
public $connection;
#establish db connection
public function __construct($host="localhost", $user="user", $pass="", $db="bible")
{
$this->connection = new mysqli($host, $user, $pass, $db);
if(mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo("Database connect Error : "
. mysqli_connect_error($mysqli));
}
}
#store mysqli object
public function connect()
{
return $this->connection;
}
#run a prepared query
public function runPreparedQuery($query, $params_r)
{
$stmt = $this->connection->prepare($query);
$this->bindParameters($stmt, $params_r);
if ($stmt->execute()) {
return $stmt;
} else {
echo("Error in $statement: "
. mysqli_error($this->connection));
return 0;
}
}
# To run a select statement with bound parameters and bound results.
# Returns an associative array two dimensional array which u can easily
# manipulate with array functions.
public function preparedSelect($query, $bind_params_r)
{
$select = $this->runPreparedQuery($query, $bind_params_r);
$fields_r = $this->fetchFields($select);
foreach ($fields_r as $field) {
$bind_result_r[] = &${$field};
}
$this->bindResult($select, $bind_result_r);
$result_r = array();
$i = 0;
while ($select->fetch()) {
foreach ($fields_r as $field) {
$result_r[$i][$field] = $$field;
}
$i++;
}
$select->close();
return $result_r;
}
#takes in array of bind parameters and binds them to result of
#executed prepared stmt
private function bindParameters(&$obj, &$bind_params_r)
{
call_user_func_array(array($obj, "bind_param"), $bind_params_r);
}
private function bindResult(&$obj, &$bind_result_r)
{
call_user_func_array(array($obj, "bind_result"), $bind_result_r);
}
#returns a list of the selected field names
private function fetchFields($selectStmt)
{
$metadata = $selectStmt->result_metadata();
$fields_r = array();
while ($field = $metadata->fetch_field()) {
$fields_r[] = $field->name;
}
return $fields_r;
}
}
#end of class
#An example of the DB class in use
$DB = new DB("localhost", "root", "", "bible");
$var = 5;
$query = "SELECT abbr, name from books where id > ?" ;
$bound_params_r = array("i", $var);
$result_r = $DB->preparedSelect($query, $bound_params_r);
#loop thru result array and display result
foreach ($result_r as $result) {
echo $result['abbr'] . " : " . $result['name'] . "<br/>" ;
}
?>
andrey at php dot net ¶
19 years ago
If you select LOBs use the following order of execution or you risk mysqli allocating more memory that actually used
1)prepare()
2)execute()
3)store_result()
4)bind_result()
If you skip 3) or exchange 3) and 4) then mysqli will allocate memory for the maximal length of the column which is 255 for tinyblob, 64k for blob(still ok), 16MByte for MEDIUMBLOB - quite a lot and 4G for LONGBLOB (good if you have so much memory). Queries which use this order a bit slower when there is a LOB but this is the price of not having memory exhaustion in seconds.
kontakt at arthur minus schiwon dot de ¶
16 years ago
If you wrap the placeholders with quotation marks you will experience warnings like "Number of variables doesn't match number of parameters in prepared statement" (at least with INSERT Statements).
mhradek AT gmail.com ¶
16 years ago
A particularly helpful adaptation of this function and the call_user_func_array function:
// $params is sent as array($val=>'i', $val=>'d', etc...)
function db_stmt_bind_params($stmt, $params)
{
$funcArg[] = $stmt;
foreach($params as $val=>$type)
{
$funcArg['type'] .= $type;
$funcArg[] = $val;
}
return call_user_func_array('mysqli_stmt_bind_param', $funcArgs);
}
Thanks to 'sned' for the code.
st dot john dot johnson at gmail dot com ¶
17 years ago
In reference to what lachlan76 said before, stored procedures CAN be executed through prepared statements as long as you tell the DB to move to the next result before executing again.
Example (Five calls to a stored procedure):
<?php
for ($i=0;$i<5;$i++) {
$statement = $mysqli->stmt_init();
$statement->prepare("CALL some_procedure( ? )");
// Bind, execute, and bind.
$statement->bind_param("i", 1);
$statement->execute();
$statement->bind_result($results);
while($statement->fetch()) {
// Do what you want with your results.
}
$statement->close();
// Now move the mysqli connection to a new result.
while($mysqli->next_result()) { }
}
?>
If you include the last statement, this code should execute without the nasty "Commands out of sync" error.
lukaszNOSPAMPLEASE at epas dot pl ¶
16 years ago
i've got some bad news for you guys if you haven't found out already.
the trick with mysqli_next_result() only prevents having the connection dropped after a stored procedure call.
apparently you can bind parameters for a prepared stored procedure call, but you'll get messed up records from mysqli_stmt_fetch() after mysqli_stmt_bind_result(), at least when the stored procedure itself contains a prepared statement.
a way to avoid data corruption could be specifying the CLIENT_MULTI_STATEMENTS flag in mysqli_real_connect(), if it wasn't disabled entirely (for security reasons, as they say). another option is to use mysqli_multi_query(), but then you can't bind at all.
lachlan76 at gmail dot com ¶
17 years ago
Do not try to use a stored procedure through a prepared statement.
Example:
<?php
$statement = $mysqli->stmt_init();
$statement->prepare("CALL some_procedure()");
?>
If you attempt to do this, it will fail by dropping the connection during the next query. Use mysqli_multi_query instead.
Example:
<?php
$mysqli->multi_query("CALL some_procedure()");
do
{
$result = $mysqli->store_result();
// Do your processing work here
$result->free();
} while($mysqli->next_result());
?>
This means that you cannot bind parameters or results, however.
