On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 8:06 PM Joel Hutchinson
<joel.hutchin...@onlinecommercegroup.com> wrote:

> This proposal would leave the previous mysqli_stmt_bind_param mostly 
> untouched. Instead, the two could be used in tandem
> $sql = 'SELECT name FROM db.customer WHERE record_id = ? AND shipping_zip = 
> ?';
> if(isset($_GET['zip'])) $sql .= ' AND billing_zip = ?';
>
> $stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
> $stmt->bind_param('is', $_GET['record_id'], $_GET['shipping_zip']);
> if(isset($_GET['zip'])) $stmt->bind_single('s', $_GET['billing_zip'], 3);
> $stmt->execute();
> This necessitates a small change to mysqli_stmt_bind_param, in that the 
> current function has a parameter check to ensure that the number of binds 
> matches the number of parameters in the query (or else it emits an 
> E_WARNING). That check would have to move to mysqli_stmt_execute, if it is 
> still to be performed.

If `bind_param` is allowed to do incomplete bind (as in your example
where you supply 2 out of 3 required bound parameters) t
hen there's no need for additional method, as you could simply do:

  if (isset($_GET['zip'])) $stmt->bind_param('s', $_GET['zip']);


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      Bruce Weirdan                                     mailto:weir...@gmail.com

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