Question

Is it possible to have a MySQLi prepared statement within the fetch() call of a previous statement? If not, what’s the best way around it?

Example code:

if($stmt = $link->prepare('SELECT item FROM data WHERE id = ?')) {     $stmt->bind_param('i', $id);     $stmt->execute();     $stmt->bind_result($item);     while( $stmt->fetch() ) {         /* Other code here */         $itemSummary = $item + $magic;         if($stmt2 = $link->prepare('INSERT INTO summaries (itemID, summary) VALUES (?, ?)')) {             $stmt2->bind_param('is', $itemID, $itemSummary);             $stmt2->execute();             $stmt2->close();         }     } } 

Answer 1

You should be able to do that, although you make have to start a second connection.