Hi. I'm just trying to get PHP to talk to a stored procedure which has IN, INOUT and OUT parameters. The procedure is really dumb as I'm just trying to get things to work. The procedure is (taken from NaviCat's DDL view of the procedure) ... CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost` PROCEDURE `testInOuts`(IN `anInputInt` int,INOUT `anInputOutputInt` int,OUT `anOutputDateTime` datetime) BEGIN SET anInputOutputInt = anInputInt + anInputOutputInt; SET anOutputDateTime = NOW(); END I've proven that the procedure work by ... CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost` PROCEDURE `tester`() BEGIN DECLARE myNewInt INT; DECLARE myNewDT DateTime; SET myNewInt = 5; CALL testInOuts(10, myNewInt, myNewDT); SELECT myNewInt, myNewDT; END And the output is 15 and today's datetime. But I'm getting nowhere fast with PHP and mysqli. I've got stored procedures returning result sets - all happy with that. But not via OUT or INOUT. <?php $o_Conn = new mysqli('localhost', 'root', 'LocalRoot'); if ($o_Conn->connect_errno) { die('Error #' . $o_Conn->connect_errno . ' : ' . $o_Conn->connect_error); } $o_Stmt = $o_Conn->prepare('CALL test.testInOuts(?,?,?)') or die('Error #' . $o_Conn->errno . ' : ' . $o_Conn->error); $ten = 10; $five = 5; $when = Null; $o_Stmt->bind_param('iid', $ten, $five, $when) or die('Error #' . $o_Conn->errno . ' : ' . $o_Conn->error); $o_Stmt->execute() or die('Error #' . $o_Conn->errno . ' : ' . $o_Conn->error); echo '$ten = ', $ten, PHP_EOL, '$five = ', $five, PHP_EOL, '$when = ', $when, PHP_EOL; ?> outputs ... $ten = 10 $five = 5 $when = No errors and no changes to the params. They are supplied by reference to the bind_params() method, so I would assume that they would be returned by calling execute(). But they aren't so I'm missing something obvious. Any help please? Regards, Richard. P.S. I'm coming from MSSQL using the MS SQL Server Driver for PHP via PDO, so a very different experience. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php