using nulls in a mysqli prepared statement

Question

In a mysqli prepared statement, a NULL gets turned into \'\' (in the case of a string) or 0 (in the case of an integer). I would like to store it as a true NULL. Is there a

Answer 1

For anyone coming looking at this because they are having problems binding NULL in their WHERE statement, the solution is this:

There is a mysql NULL safe operator that must be used:

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Example:

prepare("SELECT id FROM product WHERE price <=> ?"); // Will select products where the price is null
$stmt->bind_param($price);
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