Question

I am having difficulties troubleshooting some simple PHP code to insert a record in a MySQL table.

This code entered directly into WAMP works fine:

INSERT INTO `users` (`userName`,`userEmail`) VALUES ('orange','[e-mail]')

This PHP code doesn’t work:

<?php
    $dbHost="localhost";
    $dbName="project";
    $dbUser="admin";
    $dbPassword="abcd";
    $dbh=new PDO("mysql:host=$dbHost;dbName=$dbName", $dbUser, $dbPassword);
    print_r($dbh);
    echo "</br>";
    print_r($dbh->errorInfo());

    $query=$dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO users (userName, userEmail) VALUES (?,?)");
    echo "</br>";
    print_r(var_dump($query->errorInfo()));
    echo "</br>";
    print_r($query->errorCode());
    echo "</br>";
    print_r($dbh->errorInfo());

    $query->bindValue(1, 'apple');
    echo "</br>";
    print_r(var_dump($query->errorInfo()));
    echo "</br>";
    print_r($query->errorCode());
    echo "</br>";
    print_r($dbh->errorInfo());

    $query->bindValue(2, '[e-mail]');
    echo "</br>";
    print_r(var_dump($query->errorInfo()));
    echo "</br>";
    print_r($query->errorCode());
    echo "</br>";
    print_r($dbh->errorInfo());

    $inserted=$query->execute(); //True if succesful, False if not.
    echo "</br>";
    print_r(var_dump($query->errorInfo()));
    echo "</br>";
    print_r($query->errorCode());
    echo "</br>";
    print_r($dbh->errorInfo());
    echo "</br>";
    if ($inserted){print_r("true");}else{print_r("false");};
?>

What I get when I execute the page is the following printout:

PDO Object ( )
Array ( [0] => [1] => [2] => )
array(3) { [0]=> string(0) "" [1]=> NULL [2]=> NULL }

Array ( [0] => 00000 [1] => [2] => )
array(3) { [0]=> string(0) "" [1]=> NULL [2]=> NULL }

Array ( [0] => 00000 [1] => [2] => )
array(3) { [0]=> string(0) "" [1]=> NULL [2]=> NULL }

Array ( [0] => 00000 [1] => [2] => )
array(3) { [0]=> string(5) "3D000" [1]=> int(1046) [2]=> string(20) "No database selected" }
3D000
Array ( [0] => 00000 [1] => [2] => )
false

The record isn’t inserted in the db. What I am doing wrong? I am not sure what I should see in the print_r’s, I am providing them as help for responders.

Thank you,

JDelage

edited – I added the print_r’s recommended in the comments.

Here is what I see in WAMP:

Answer 1

The error message seems to indicate that you’ve connected to the DB fine, but that the project database hasn’t been selected.

To be sure it’s trying to correct with the right DSN, I’d try changing the connection string to contain values directly, rather than variables, i.e.:

'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=project'

This shouldn’t make a difference, but it’s worth checking.

If that doesn’t work, and since you appear to be able to connect to MySQL, a workaround could be to include the database name as part of the query. So your query above would become:

$query=$dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO project.users (userName, userEmail) VALUES (?,?)");