php pdo multi array insert

Question

I\'ve been playing around for few hours and trying to sort this out but looks like a hard nut to crack.

I\'m able to do a single array insertion

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Answer 1

You cannot do that automatically. Instead you have to iterate it manually and execute each record:

for ($person as $row) {
    $sth->execute($row);
}

Answer 2

To take advantage of the insert speed of multiple inserts in MySQL ( http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/insert-speed.html ), you can use a prepared statement that builds the larger query. This does add complexity over an more iterative approach, so is probably only worth it for high-demand systems or largish data sets.

If you have your data as you proposed above:

$person = array(array('name'=>'Dan', 'age'=>'30'), array('name' =>
'John', 'age' => '25'), array('name' => 'Wendy', 'age' => '32'));

We're looking to generate a query that looks something like this:

insert into table (name, age) values (?,?), (?,?), (?,?);

To pull this together you'll want something not totally unlike this:

$pdo->beginTransaction() // also helps speed up your inserts
$insert_values = array();
foreach($person as $p){
   $question_marks[] = '(?,?)';
   $insert_values = array_merge($insert_values, array_values($p));
}

$sql = "INSERT INTO table_name (name, age) VALUES " . implode(',', $question_marks);

$stmt = $pdo->prepare ($sql);
try {
    $stmt->execute($insert_values);
} catch (PDOException $e){
    // Do something smart about it...
}
$pdo->commit();