ID:               48856
 User updated by:  dhammari at q90 dot com
 Reported By:      dhammari at q90 dot com
 Status:           Assigned
 Bug Type:         PDO related
 Operating System: Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8
 PHP Version:      5.2.10
 Assigned To:      dbs
 New Comment:

Hi Bjori,

It seems to me that the ability to use the same token for multiple
binds has arisen fairly recently. I recall earlier releases of php 5
berating me for attempting to reuse a token in this manner as recently
as several months ago.

I have looked up documentation on this behavior before, and the
articles I have found seem adamant that multiple binding from a single
token should be disallowed. For example, please take a look at these
previous bug reports from 2005 and 2007:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=33886
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40417

The discussions in these articles seem to reach a consensus that every
time a variable in a prepared PDO statement is bound, it should be bound
to a unique token.

While I think it is useful to bind multiple parameters to a single
token, I don't want to start writing code that relies on this feature
until I am assured that this is the intended behavior. Otherwise, my
code would not be future proof and could be invalidated by an upcoming
release. I would appreciate it if you could clarify the intended
behavior and update php's documentation accordingly.

Sincerely,
Dan Hammari


Previous Comments:
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[2009-09-23 17:29:56] bj...@php.net

No idea. Its been like this for almost 4years..
Dan? Was this originally a limitation in PDO?

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[2009-09-23 16:17:57] sjo...@php.net

Bjori, do you know why this was in the documentation?

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[2009-07-08 20:04:01] dhammari at q90 dot com

Description:
------------
My PDO Statement seems to bind multiple parameters of the same name
even though the PDO->Prepare documentation indicates that this should
fail: "You cannot use a named parameter marker of the same name twice in
a prepared statement." Nevertheless, my SQL statement that is reusing
the same parameter is getting through and returning a valid result set
from a MySQL engine.

PHP Version: 5.2.9-pl2-gentoo
System: Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php

// CREATE TABLE `testError` (`id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY
KEY , `Name` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL , `Description` TEXT NOT NULL);
// INSERT INTO `testError` (`id` , `Name` , `Description`) VALUES ('1',
'Binds Both Parameters', 'Seems to bind both parameters'), ('2', 'Binds
All Parameters', 'Seems to bind all parameters');
    
    $pdo = new PDO($_SESSION["API_DB_dsn"],
$_SESSION["API_DB_username"], $_SESSION["API_DB_password"]);
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM testError WHERE id >= :myParameter AND
LENGTH(name) > :myParameter AND 1 = :myParameter";
    $params = array("myParameter" => 1);
    $statement = $pdo->prepare($sql);
    foreach($params as $key => $value){
        $statement->bindParam(":".$key, $value);
    }
    $statement->debugDumpParams();
    $success = $statement->execute();
    if(!$success){
        echo("\n<p style='color:red;'>SQL FAILED</p>\n");
        var_dump($pdo->errorInfo());
        var_dump($statement->errorInfo());
    }
    else{
        echo("\n<p style='color:green;'>SQL SUCCEEDED</p>\n");
        $result = $statement->fetchALL(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
        var_dump($result);
    }

?>

Expected result:
----------------
I expect to see the following error:

Invalid parameter number: number of bound variables does not match
number of tokens

SQL FAILED

array
  0 => string '00000' (length=5)

array
  0 => string 'HY093' (length=5)


Actual result:
--------------
Instead, I get the following:

SQL SUCCEEDED

array
  0 => 
    array
      'id' => string '1' (length=1)
      'Name' => string 'Binds Both Parameters' (length=21)
      'Description' => string 'Seems to bind both parameters'
(length=29)
  1 => 
    array
      'id' => string '2' (length=1)
      'Name' => string 'Binds All Parameters' (length=20)
      'Description' => string 'Seems to bind all parameters'
(length=28)



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