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Asked: 2026-05-23T09:52:28+00:00

I just started using PHP PDO with MySQL stored procedures and I have problem

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I just started using PHP PDO with MySQL stored procedures and I have problem with how to get OUT parameters from the procedure call. I looked at many similar stackoverflow topics, but unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to resolve my issue 😐

Here are the details:

The procedure takes 1 input parameter and has 2 mandatory output parameters, and returns result status in them.

This is how I call it:

$input = 5;
$mydb = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=mydb", "user", "pass");
$proc = $mydb->prepare("CALL proc_name($input, @o_code, @o_message)");
$proc->execute();

The procedure returns INT in the @o_code parameter and STRING in the @o_message parameter.
If it’s called from CLI, and after the call I write in the CLI

select @o_code, @o_message;

everything is OK, that is I am able to see the values returned in these OUT parameters.
However I cannot do it from PHP code – for some reason I always get FALSE results. The procedure do it’s job correctly, but I just cannot get its results.

I tried the following methods to get the values, right after I make the call described above:

$output = $proc->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); // also with PDO:FETCH_OBJ
$output = $mydb->query("select @o_code, @o_message");
$output = $mydb->query("select @o_code, @o_message")->fetch();
$output = $mydb->query("select @o_code, @o_message")->fetchColumn(); 
$output = $mydb->query("select @o_code, @o_message")->fetchAll();

but none of these return any result different from NULL or FALSE. I also tried with bindParam, but still could not make it work.

Thank you for any help on this issue and good day!

—– EDIT —–

Here is the code that I tried with bindParam, which still does not work:

$input = 5;
$proc = $mydb->prepare("CALL proc_name(?, ?, ?)");
$proc->bindParam(1, $input, PDO::PARAM_INT); 
$proc->bindParam(2, $code, PDO::PARAM_INT); 
$proc->bindParam(3, $message, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$proc->execute();

var_dump($code, $message); // NULL, NULL
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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem was that the first query that is calling the stored procedure is not considered as finished and closed, and PDO will not execute another query until the previous query is done.

    The solution was to add $proc->closeCursor();

    The whole working sample is:

    $input = 5;
$mydb = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=mydb", "user", "pass");
$proc = $mydb->prepare("CALL proc_name($input, @o_code, @o_message)");
$proc->execute();
$proc->closeCursor();

$output = $mydb->query("select @o_code, @o_message")->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
var_dump($output); // array('@o_code'=>value, 'o_message'=>value)
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