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[nycphp-talk] PDO and Prepared Statements in MySQL when using LIKE [expr]

web dream works wdw wdwtest at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 01:11:12 EDT 2007


Hi there,

you can try for $$phpvar in the query. It might work.
e.g

$sth = $this->conn->prepare ("SELECT * FROM table WHERE column LIKE
\"%$$phpvar%\"");


On 8/5/07, Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> hey!
>
> I have some query with a LIKE expression e.g. "SELECT * FROM table WHERE
> column LIKE "$phpvar%", but I would like to use prepared statements
> instead of writing the variable directly into the query. So I write:
>
> $sth = $this->conn->prepare ("SELECT * FROM table WHERE column LIKE
> \":phpvar%\"");
> $sth->bindParam (":phpvar", $phpvar);
> $sth->execute();
> var_dump ($sth->fetchAll());
>
> Here I get an empty result set when using prepared statements. However
> when just using string concatenation and putting the variable directly
> into the query it works fine.
>
> Is this expected or a bug?
>
> Cheers,
> Jakob
>
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