PDO Prepared Inserts multiple rows in single query

Question

I am currently using this type of SQL on MySQL to insert multiple rows of values in one single query:

INSERT INTO `tbl` (`key1`,`key2`) VALUES (\'r1v1\',\'r1         


        

Answer 1

A shorter answer: flatten the array of data ordered by columns then

//$array = array( '1','2','3','4','5', '1','2','3','4','5');
$arCount = count($array);
$rCount = ($arCount  ? $arCount - 1 : 0);
$criteria = sprintf("(?,?,?,?,?)%s", str_repeat(",(?,?,?,?,?)", $rCount));
$sql = "INSERT INTO table(c1,c2,c3,c4,c5) VALUES$criteria";

When inserting a 1,000 or so records you don't want to have to loop through every record to insert them when all you need is a count of the values.