Question

The question is a fairly open one. I’ve been using Stored Procs with MS SQLServer for some time with classic ASP and ASP.net and love them, lots.

I have a small hobby project I’m working on and for various reasons have gone the LAMP route. Any hints/tricks/traps or good starting points to get into using stored procedures with MySQL and PHP5? My version of MySQL supports Stored Procedures.

Answer 1

Forget about mysqli, it’s much harder to use than PDO and should have been already removed. It is true that it introduced huge improvements over mysql, but to achieve the same effect in mysqli sometimes requires enormous effort over PDO i.e. associative fetchAll.

Instead, take a look at PDO, specifically prepared statements and stored procedures.

$stmt = $dbh->prepare('CALL sp_takes_string_returns_string(?)'); $value = 'hello'; $stmt->bindParam(1, $value, PDO::PARAM_STR|PDO::PARAM_INPUT_OUTPUT, 4000);   // call the stored procedure $stmt->execute();  print 'procedure returned $value\n';