Question

I have a PDO prepared statement which looks like this:

$STH = $DBH->("CREATE TABLE :prefixbase (table_structure)");

:prefix should be replaced with userprefix_. The resulting SQL should look like this: CREATE TABLE userprefix_base(table structure). How can I separate the placeholder from the rest of the string?

Answer 1

I guess you need to use regular expression or simple find-replace on your string, which after such processing can be used by PDO object as a proper SQL command.

Here is an example:

$subject = "CREATE TABLE :prefixbase(table_structure)";

$sql = preg_replace('/(:prefix)/', 'userprefix_', $subject);
// or
$sql = str_replace(':prefix', 'userprefix_', $subject);

P.S. I hope I understood your request correctly.