Hi. Just looking for some clarity before I spend an hour trying to figure out if I'm doing it right. I'm reading a stream of product data from an external source. I'm needing to tag the data as it goes through the system, indicating if the product has been seen before. So, I'm using a prepared statement with 2 params that identify the product uniquely from the external source. So, I have a prepare(), bind_param(), execute(), bind_result() and fetch(). I think prepare() and bind_param() take place outside of the loop. And population of the bound variables, execute(), bind_result() and fetch() all take place inside the loop. Is that right? Or can I bind_result BEFORE execute(), so all I need to do is populate the bound variable (which is done from the reading from the external stream), execute() and fetch(). The examples in the manual don't really demonstrate the re-use of a prepared statement, making it both a little vague and pointless (excluding the OBVIOUS advantage of sql injection protection - I'm using prepared statements mainly for that reason). -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : Fantasy Shopper @RQuadling : http://e-e.com/M_248814.html : http://bit.ly/9O8vFY : http://fan.sh/106/5tw
