Binding more values than specified is not possible; if more keys exist in input_parameters than in the SQL specified in the PDO::prepare(), then the statement will fail and an error is emitted.
Lets see the code that would cause the above behaviour. First there was some boiler plate code to write to execute a simple SQL statement (getting an ID from a 'posts' table for data that I know exists). There was a single bind parameter, ':id', in the SQL statement.
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$binds = ...; /* see specific examples below */
$sql = 'SELECT id FROM posts WHERE id = :id';
$statement = $dbConn->prepare($sql);
$results = $statement->execute($binds);
$data = $statement->fetchAll(\PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
when the $binds variable was set as follows:
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$binds = array('id' => '0f841cb12dc75');
I was getting data back as expected...
However if I were to add some additional (non-sensical) bind parameter/value to the $binds array like this...
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$binds = array('id' => '0f841cb12dc75', 'a' => 'b');
Instead of ignoring the bind parameter that does not appear in the SQL statement, PDO instead returned no data.
Additionally the following warning was emitted to the PHP error log:
Error
PHP Warning: PDOStatement::execute(): SQLSTATE[HY093]: Invalid parameter number: number of bound variables does not match number of tokens in dbtest.php on line 33
The above all made sense, though I was half-expecting that PDO would simply ignore any extra bind parameters.
-i
