Question

I need effective some solution for the following issue:
For some reason that would be too much time-consuming to explain properly, I need a PDO prepare statemnt sorta looking this way:

'SELECT field, another field, blabla FROM table WHERE some_foreign_id = first_val AND the_same_foreign_id = second_val AND again_the_same_id = third val ......' 

and Id wish to fill the values with an array of unknown size, that depends on how many fields in that foreign table fits to a certain category in yet another table.
So the querstion is: is it even possible or should I give it up and find some naive walkaround?

Thanks in advance!
Mac

Answer 1

It should be possible. You’ll need to generate your query dynamically with question marks for parameters, and then bind with an array at the point of execution.

See example 3 on the PDO::execute page of the PHP docs.