How would you check if a variable was submitted into a field then submit it to the PDO statement?

[Q695]

Going from something like:

$sql_update='';
$binders='';
if(isset($_POST['name']) && $_POST['name']!=''){
$name=$_POST['name'];
$binders.=",$name";

$sql_update.="`name`=?";
}
...
if(isset($_POST['phone']) && $_POST['phone']!=''){
$phone=$_POST['phone'];
$binders.=",$phone";

$sql_update.="`phone`=?";
}
$binders = trim($binders, ',');
$sql_update = trim($sql_update, ',');


if ($sql_update!='' && $binders!='') {
$sql = "UPDATE ___table___
SET $sql_update
WHERE id=$___id___";
$q = $conn->prepare($sql);
// $q->execute(array($binders,$___id___));

}

How would you send it to the PDO function?

 

I spent the whole day trying to convert it from a mysql statement to a PDO statement, and feel like 

[Jacques1]

You need to put the parameters into an actual array, not a comma-separated string.

 

Probably the easiest approach is to assemble an associative array with the keys being the columns and the values being the values for the SET clause. You can then create your query from this array at the very end.

[Q695]

I tried assigning variable names first, but for some reason I was unable to get it process, so I decided to try with ? to get them to run.  Can you provide a run-able example?

[NotionCommotion]

Maybe something like the following...

<?php
$data=array();
$query='';
foreach(array('name','phone') as $key) {
    if(isset($_POST[$key]) && $_POST[$key]!=''){
        $data[$key]=$_POST[$key];
        $query.="$key=:$key,";
    }
}
if(!empty($data)){
    $sql = 'UPDATE myTable SET '.trim($query, ",").' WHERE id=:id';
    $data['id']=123;
    $q = $conn->prepare($sql);
    $q->execute($data);
}

[Q695]

Thanks, that worked perfectly

Edited October 30, 2015 by Q695