Re: Prepared statements with a variable number of parameters

Hello

2009/10/10 Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>:
> I'm using PDO in PHP for database access (actually Zend Framework), and
> following best practice by using parameters in prepared statements.
>
> My question is, what do people normally do when there's a variable
> number of parameters? - for example:
>
>  select ..... where item_id in ( ... );
>

You can use arrays here.

select ... where item_id = ANY(string_to_array($1, ','))

Regards
Pavel Stehule

> In this case, I mightn't know how many values will go inside the
> parentheses.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray.
>
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