updating records with prepared statements, checking if update worked

Question

I have a query that updates a record on my database, it works fine but i wanted to know how to check if the update has happened so i can return true and display the right me

Answer 1

Execute method returns True when it finished successfully, but, if this behavior is not enough for you, you can check also for affected rows:

$query = "UPDATE user
            SET password = ?
            WHERE email = ?";

if($stmt = $conn->prepare($query)) 
{
    $stmt->bind_param('ss', $pwd, $userEmail);
    if ($stmt->execute()) {
        //query with out errors:
        printf("rows updateds: %d\n", $stmt->affected_rows);
    } else {
        //some error:
        printf("Error: %s.\n", $stmt->error);
    }
}

The second check you can do is to verify that exactly 1 row was updated:

if($stmt = $conn->prepare($query)) 
{
    $stmt->bind_param('ss', $pwd, $userEmail);
    if ($stmt->execute() and $stmt->affected_rows == 1) {
        //your update is succesfully.
    }
}

Answer 2

Would the mysql_affected_rows() function work for you?

Answer 3

A few years late, but perhaps this could help someone..

As others have mentioned already you can use affected_rows to check if the UPDATE query in a PREPARED STATEMENT has indeed updated any record. However, do note that if the submitted data is the same as the record in the database 'affected_rows' will return a zero (0).

A workaround of mine is creating a column for TIMESTAMP with ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. Then every time I run the query, I'll also pass on a NULL value to the column tracking the time - that way forcing the row to UPDATE every time the query is executed. Then all you do is check for affected_rows.

Answer 4

check if below works:

$query = "UPDATE user
        SET password = ?
        WHERE email = ?";

if($stmt = $conn->prepare($query)) {
    $stmt->bind_param('ss', $pwd, $userEmail);
    if ($stmt->execute()) {
        // Worked...
    } else {
        // Didn't work...
    }
}