php mysqli WHERE IN (?,?,? …) [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you have a list of variables that differs in size every call that you wanto to bind to an IN-statement, the most simple way would be to generate the SQL string programatically and use a loop to bind the variables:

/**
 * @param  array  $values
 * @param  mysqli $db
 * @return mysqli_stmt
 */
function bindInValues(array $values, mysqli $db)
{
    $sql = sprintf('SELECT blabla FROM foo WHERE id IN (%s)',
        implode(', ', array_fill(0, count($values), '?'))
    );
    $stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
    foreach ($values as $value) {
        $stmt->bind_param('s', $value);
    }
    return $stmt;
}

If you like call_user_func_array you can use dynamic method invocation and go along without a loop.

/**
 * @param  array  $values
 * @param  mysqli $db
 * @return mysqli_stmt
 */
function bindInValues(array $values, mysqli $db)
{
    $sql = sprintf('SELECT blabla FROM foo WHERE id IN (%s)',
        implode(', ', array_fill(0, count($values), '?'))
    );
    $stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
    array_unshift($values, implode('', array_fill(0, count($values), 's')));
    call_user_func_array(array($stmt, 'bind_param'), $values);
    return $stmt;
}