If you're making just one insert; it's probably not the best approach. However, if you're inserting multiple rows, benchmarks have shown that preparing a statement and binding the params is faster. Also, with mysqli, you can strictly define types for fields and remove the step of validation -- so they say. I'd rather not try {} catch{} a query and give an error on failure... so, I prepare the data as I test its validity anyway.

Jeremy Mcentire
Ant Farmer
ZooToo LLC


On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Hulf wrote:

Hi,

Begining using the php5 mysql functions and want to know what is the point of preparing/binding the data before I insert it?

$prep = $mysqli->prepare ("INSERT INTO cd (cdid,title,artist) VALUES ('0',?,?)");
$prep->bind_param ('22',$title,$artist);

Ta,

R.

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