Bind parameters

There are two use-cases for binding parameters:

• When you do the same query with different data many times.
• When you need to insert values into SQL string to prevent SQL injection attacks.

You can do binding by using named placeholders (:name) or positional placeholders (?) in place of values and pass values as a separate argument.

Note: In many places in higher abstraction layers, like query builder, you often specify an array of values and Yii DB does parameter binding for you, so there is no need to specify parameters manually.

Bind a single value

You can use bindValue() to bind a value to a parameter. For example, the following code binds the value 42 to the named placeholder :id.

use Yiisoft\Db\Connection\ConnectionInterface;

/** @var ConnectionInterface $db */

$command = $db->createCommand('SELECT * FROM {{%customer}} WHERE [[id]] = :id');
$command->bindValue(':id', 42);
$command->queryOne();

The result is:

[
    'id' => '1',
    'email' => 'user1@example.com',
    'name' => 'user1',
    'address' => 'address1',
    'status' => '1',
    'profile_id' => '1',
]

Bind many values at once

bindValues() binds a list of values to the corresponding named placeholders in the SQL statement.

For example, the following code binds the values 3 and user3 to the named placeholders :id and :name.

use Yiisoft\Db\Connection\ConnectionInterface;

/** @var ConnectionInterface $db */

$command = $db->createCommand('SELECT * FROM {{%customer}} WHERE [[id]] = :id AND [[name]] = :name');
$command->bindValues([':id' => 3, ':name' => 'user3']);
$command->queryOne();

The result is:

[
    'id' => '3',
    'email' => 'user3@example.com',
    'name' => 'user3',
    'address' => 'address3',
    'status' => '2',
    'profile_id' => '2',
]

Bind a parameter

bindParam() binds a parameter to the specified variable. The difference with bindValue() is that the variable may change.

For example, the following code binds the value 2 and user2 to the named placeholders :id and :name and then it's changing the value:

use Yiisoft\Db\Connection\ConnectionInterface;

/** @var ConnectionInterface $db */

$command = $db->createCommand('SELECT * FROM {{%customer}} WHERE [[id]] = :id AND [[name]] = :name');
$id = 2;
$name = 'user2';
$command->bindParam(':id', $id);
$command->bindParam(':name', $name);
$user2 = $command->queryOne();

$id = 3;
$name = 'user3';
$user3 = $command->queryOne();

The results are:

[
    'id' => '2',
    'email' => 'user2@example.com',
    'name' => 'user2',
    'address' => 'address2',
    'status' => '1',
    'profile_id' => '1',
]

[
    'id' => '3',
    'email' => 'user3@example.com',
    'name' => 'user3',
    'address' => 'address3',
    'status' => '2',
    'profile_id' => '2',
]