Using pdo in php with stored procedure

Question

I have a simple stored procedure in MySQL database:

DELIMITER $$
CREATE DEFINER=`vidhu`@`%` PROCEDURE `test`(var_datain TEXT)
BEGIN
    SELECT var_datain;
EN         


        

Answer 1

The following code works for calling without prepare statement!

$query="CALL store_procedure_name(@a)";
$conn->query($query);

$query="SELECT @a as outvar;";
$result = $conn->query($query);
foreach ($result as $x)
{
    $res=$x['outvar'];
}

echo $res;

Answer 2

You need to use bindValue instead of bindParam.

When you use bindParam, it binds the variable provided to the parameter, not the value of the variable.

So, if you do:

$x = 5;
$stmt->bindParam(1, $x, PDO::PARAM_INT);
$x = 6;
$stmt->execute(); //executes with 6 instead of 5

It's actually executed with 6 rather than 5. To do this, the method must have a reference to the variable. You cannot have a reference to a literal, so this means that bindParam cannot be used with literals (or anything you can't have a reference to).

$x = 5;
$stmt->bindValue(1, $x, PDO::PARAM_INT);
$x = 6;
$stmt->execute(); //executes with 5 instead of 6

Then:

$stmt->bindParam(1, 1, PDO::PARAM_INT); 
//invalid because there's no way to pass a literal 1 by reference
$stmt->bindValue(1, 1, PDO::PARAM_INT);
//valid