CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phppdoforeach
Adam McGurk
Adam McGurk

Reputation: 476

Bind pdo variables in for/foreach loop

I have looked at some other Stack Overflow questions on this, but I can't figure out how to loop through sql statements and bind variables to that. Here is how my queries look right now:

$db = dbCon();
$sql = "";
foreach($data as $d) {
    $sql .= "INSERT INTO required_fields (field_name) VALUES ($d)";
}
$stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
// Here is where I need to bind the variables
$stmt->execute();
$rowsChanged = $stmt->rowCount();
$stmt->closeCursor();
return $rowsChanged;

I can't figure out how to loop through because this is how I understand bindValue works:

$stmt->bindValue(':variableInQuery', $PHPVariable, PDO::PARAM_STR);

What's tripping me up is the colon in front of the variableInQuery and I can't figure out how to make the php variable name unique...what am I missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 253

Answers (1)

Ermac
Ermac

Reputation: 1250

You need to move the code inside the loop:

<?php
$db = dbCon();
$sql = "INSERT INTO required_fields (field_name) VALUES (:variableInQuery)";
$stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
$rowsChanged = 0;
foreach($data as $d) {
    $stmt->bindValue(':variableInQuery', $d, PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $stmt->execute();
    $rowsChanged += $stmt->rowCount();
}
$stmt->closeCursor();
return $rowsChanged;

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions