What mysqli value for bind_param() i or s

Question

I am using mysqli bind_param() when I\'m inserting stuff to my DB.

When I tried to insert a phone number as \"0737327373\" the value got inserted as \"73732

Answer 1

If you are inserting a "number" into a varchar field then yes, use an "s".

In your case it makes no real sense to insert a phone number as an integer since you probably won't be doing any math analysis on it and you lose functionality (leading zeros, for example).