Php mysqli bind_param null

Ask Question. Asked 8 years ago. Active 8 years ago. Viewed 14k times. Improve this question. JackSun JackSun 1, 3 3 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Just pass null as a variable and use string. Set your variable as null e. Possible duplicate of stackoverflow. And even slower than the older mysql.

Julian: To say PDO is much slower is a bit much. The difference in performance is too small to be likely to be the main bottleneck if noticeable at all — Elias Van Ootegem.

Thanks for correcting. I read a benchmark where the difference was more significant. And my own tests had more remarkable results. Julian it's been slow as flippin christmas everytime i used it. Sal Celli Sal Celli 1, 1 1 gold badge 7 7 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. Jeff Solomon Jeff Solomon 6 6 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges.

You may want to notice the existing answer that takes ten times less code and requires no additional functions at all. It's generally quite a good idea to learn from the answers that already exist. Awesome, thanks for that; so friendly of you. I'm just a beginner, give me a break. Sorry for bothering you again, but I just noticed a problem in your code.

You need to split that string and use separate values, generating the equal number of placeholders dynamically, as shown here — Your Common Sense. YourCommonSense ok, now that was very helpful, thank you.

I just noticed that the query wasn't returning the desired results and wasn't sure why. I guess I spend some time trying some of the other mentioned solutions, although I couldn't fully make sense of them as they aren't fully articulated. Will take me some hacking through it to figure out. But thanks, I appreciate you actually reading through my work. It seams that this is not intended. Instead only literals are allowed. If you call bind with an empty key, it clears the bound params.

If you call bind with a key that has a null value, it unsets that key. If you call bind with a key that has a non-null value, the key is set to that value. Contributor Author.

SharkyKZ mentioned this issue Oct 29, Support binding null values SharkyKZ closed this Oct 29, Active 8 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 5k times. Improve this question. Emilie Emilie 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges.

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Your Common Sense Your Common Sense k 37 37 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. This is not directly related to the question, it's just a minor performance tip.