It will be easier to explain with the next code (It's wrong, by the way):
$selectGenre_sql = 'SELECT genreID FROM genres WHERE dbGenre = ?';
if ($stmt->prepare($selectGenre_sql)) {
// bind the query parameters
$stmt->bind_param('s', $genre);
// bind the results to variables
$stmt->bind_result($genres);
// execute the query
$stmt->execute();
$genre = array();
while ($stmt->fetch()) {
$genre[] = $genres;
}
}
The code above gets the value from 'genreID' when 'dbGenre' is equal to '$genre'. And then store the results in an array. But i'ts not working. Why? I think because '$genre' is an array, so I need to loop trough it to get a different value from 'genreID' each time.
$genre is an enumerated array containing movie genres, for example:
[0] => Action [1] => Adventure [2] => Fantasy
I need to compare de value (like 'Action' for example)
The 'genres' table contains two columns: genreID (INT) and dbGenre (VARCHAR)
I just need each genreID (that is a number).... Lets say.. when dbGenre is equal to Action, then store the genreID in an array1, and then loop the $genre array to get the genreID for the next value and store it again in array1
How can I fix it?? I'm new to programming so please be as detailed as you can. Thanks!!
You can't bind an array to an SQL parameter. You can use a parameter in SQL in place of a single literal value. Not a list of values, or an expression, or a column name or table name.
To solve the task in your case, you can use either of two solutions:
First solution: loop over $genre
array, bind each value one at a time, and execute the SQL query for each value.
if ($stmt->prepare($selectGenre_sql)) {
$genre = array();
foreach ($gengre as $genreID) {
$stmt->bind_param('s', $genreID);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->bind_result($genres);
while ($stmt->fetch()) {
$genre[] = $genres;
}
}
}
Second solution: execute the query once, with multiple parameters, one for each value in the array. This requires some tricky code to build a variable number of ?
placeholders in the SQL query, separated by commas.
$selectGenre_sql = 'SELECT genreID FROM genres WHERE dbGenre IN ('
. join(',', array_fill(0, count($genre), '?')) . ')';
if ($stmt->prepare($selectGenre_sql)) {
$genre = array();
. . .
Also you need to get tricky calling bind_param()
with a variable number of arguments based on the elements in your $genre
array:
. . .
call_user_func_array( array($stmt, 'bind_param'),
array_unshift($genre, str_repeat('i', count($genre)));
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->bind_result($genres);
while ($stmt->fetch()) {
$genre[] = $genres;
}
}
You might want to consider using PDO::mysql
because it's easier to bind parameters from an array. The MySQLi interface is pretty awkward for this case.
@ Bill Karwin
call_user_func_array won't pass the args by reference , it will pass the values so wont work! it will give you stmt->bind_param error
pdo its not a better solution ... u still have to do a workaround for that too
this should be edited in ur post :
if($stmt = ...same as yours) {
array_unshift($genre, str_repeat('i', count($genre)));
$temp = array();
foreach($genre as $key => $value) {
$temp[$key] = &$genre[$key];
}
call_user_func_array(array($stmt, 'bind_param'), $temp);
etc...
}
A few things.
.
$genreId = -1;
$stmt->bind_results($genreId);
$stmt->execute();
while($stmt->fetch()){
$genreArray[] = $genreId;
}