Insert into 2 tables from 1 form. Mysql Transaction?

Question

The user will create an article and submit an image with it.

+The article will go to the articles table.

+The image will go to images table (so that it can

Answer 1

It looks like you are using PDO (nice!). With PDO, you can get your transactions in an easy way with beginTransaction() and commit()

Your code would look like:

$pdo->beginTransaction();
// .. fire your 'normal' queries.
// .. and yet some more queries
$pdo->commit();

Then, I'd personally write separate INSERT queries in just two separate statements. More readable in my opinion.

Example:

$pdo->beginTransaction();

$first = $pdo->prepare('INSERT INTO table (field, otherField) VALUES(?,?)');
$second = $pdo->prepare('INSERT INTO table (field, otherField) VALUES(?,?)');

$first->execute(array( .. your data (values) .. ));
$second->execute(array( .. your data (values) .. ));

$pdo->commit();