PDO PHP insert into DB from an associative array

Question

I have an array like this

  $a = array( \'phone\' => 111111111, \'image\' => \"sadasdasd43eadasdad\" );

When I do a var-dump I get th

Answer 1

You actually can have the :phone and :image fields bound with null values in advance. The structure of the table is fixed anyway and you probably should got that way.

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But the answer to your question might look like this:

$keys = ':' . implode(', :', array_keys($array)); 
$values = str_repeat('?, ', count($array)-1) . '?';

$i = 1;
$q = $DBH->prepare("INSERT INTO user ($keys) VALUES ($values)");

foreach($array as $value)
    $q->bindParam($i++, $value, PDO::PARAM_STR, mb_strlen($value));