Question

I’m having an issue binding the LIMIT part of an SQL query. This is because the query is being passed as a string. I’ve seen another Q here that deals with binding parameters, nothing that deals with Named Placeholders in an array.

Here’s my code:

public function getLatestWork($numberOfSlides, $type = 0) {

$params = array();
$params["numberOfSlides"] = (int) trim($numberOfSlides);
$params["type"] = $type;

$STH = $this->_db->prepare("SELECT slideID 
    FROM slides
    WHERE visible = 'true'
        AND type = :type
    ORDER BY order
    LIMIT :numberOfSlides;");

$STH->execute($params);

$result = $STH->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_COLUMN);

return $result;        
}

The error I’m getting is: Syntax error or access violation near ''20'' (20 is the value of $numberOfSlides).

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

The problem is that execute() quotes the numbers and treats as strings:

From the manual – An array of values with as many elements as there are bound parameters in the SQL statement being executed. All values are treated as PDO::PARAM_STR.

<?php 
public function getLatestWork($numberOfSlides=10, $type=0) {

    $numberOfSlides = intval(trim($numberOfSlides));

    $STH = $this->_db->prepare("SELECT slideID
                                FROM slides
                                WHERE visible = 'true'
                                AND type = :type
                                ORDER BY order
                                LIMIT :numberOfSlides;");

    $STH->bindParam(':numberOfSlides', $numberOfSlides, PDO::PARAM_INT);
    $STH->bindParam(':type', $type, PDO::PARAM_INT);

    $STH->execute();
    $result = $STH->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_COLUMN);

    return $result;
}
?>