How about combining your POINT() into one parameter:
$result = pg_prepare($dbconn, "my_query",
'INSERT INTO gtest VALUES ($1,GeomFromText($2, 4326))');
$result = pg_execute($dbconn, "my_query",
array("phptest", "POINT(23 24)"));
Doris Lam wrote:
> Nope, still doesn't work...for the moment I'll just preset the variables
> and use double quotes for the query string. The actual insert statement
> should be like this:
>
> INSERT INTO gtest VALUES (city, GeomFromText('POINT(lon lat)', 4326))
>
> where lon and lat are decimal numbers, and I wanted to replace city,
> lon, lat with different values each time I insert...
> It seems like any $var after a single quote, even with \', gets ignored?
> I also tried using double quotes and escaping $, but doesn't work either..
> Thanks though.
>
> Doris
>
> Chris wrote:
>> dlamoris@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to set up a prepared sql statement with 3 parameters and
>>> then execute with array of 3 elements (this is to a postgresql
>>> database with postgis):
>>>
>>> $result = pg_prepare($dbconn, "my_query", 'INSERT INTO gtest VALUES ($1,
>>> GeomFromText(\'POINT($2 $3)\', 4326))');
>>>
>>> $result = pg_execute($dbconn, "my_query", array("phptest", "23", "24"));
>>>
>>> But when I ran it, it gave me this error:
>>> Warning: pg_execute(): Query failed: ERROR: bind message supplies 3
>>> parameters, but prepared statement "my_query" requires 1 in
>>> /home/dlamoris/phptest.php on line 15
>>
>> Probably because of the single quotes around the point() function.
>>
>> Try the heredoc type syntax suggested on http://php.net/pg_prepare:
>>
>> $my_query = <<<MYQRY
>> INSERT INTO gtest VALUES($1, GeomFromText('POINT('$2, $3')', 4326));
>> MYQRY;
>>
>>
>> Also I'd suggest naming the columns in the first part:
>>
>> insert into gtest(col1, col2, col3) values (....);
>>
>> so it's always in the same order and you're not relying on any
>> behaviour. If you add a column in the middle of your table later on,
>> this is going to break a lot of your code because the columns will be
>> out of order.
>>
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