Question

Very new to PHP5 and have some problems still. I figured out how to Select with prepared statements now trying to insert/update my code is as follows

function input_lab_results($name, $image, $descrip) {     $query = 'INSERT INTO pat_table (pat_name, pat_image, pat_descrip, pat_doctor, pat_resident, pat_create, pat_modify) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)';      if($stmt = $this->conn->prepare($query)){         $stmt->bind_param('sssiidd', $name, $image, $descrip, 0, 0, date('Ymd'), date('Ymd'));         $stmt->execute();         die();     } else{         die($this->conn->error);     } } 

The error I am getting is

Fatal error: Cannot pass parameter 4 by reference html/classes/mySQL.php on line 43

Any help/references would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Everyone is mentioning using PDO, do you guys have any good tutorials or examples of this please?

Answer 1

I changed it to

function input_lab_results($name, $image, $descrip) {     $query = 'INSERT INTO pat_table (pat_name, pat_image, pat_descrip, pat_doctor, pat_resident, pat_create, pat_modify) VALUES (?, ?, ?, 0, 0, ?, ?)';      if($stmt = $this->conn->prepare($query)){         $stmt->bind_param('sssdd', $name, $image, $descrip, date('Ymd'), date('Ymd'));         $stmt->execute();         die();     } else{         die($this->conn->error);     } } 

Basically I changed where it was reading the ?? for the integer to 0 in the query I didn’t bind it.