How do you use prepared statements and bound parameters to replace a value in a column? For example,
$stmt = "UPDATE users SET name = :name
WHERE name = :name";
$stmt->bindParam(:name, $oldName);
$stmt->bindParam(:name, $newName);
$stmt->execute();
You can't use same named bind parameters within prepare
statement your parameters name must be unique as
$stmt = $connection->prepare("UPDATE users SET name = :newName
WHERE name = :oldName");
$stmt->bindParam(':oldName', $oldName);
$stmt->bindParam(':newName', $newName);
You have to use different placeholder:
$stmt = $dbh->prepare("UPDATE users SET name = :newname
WHERE name = :oldname")
$stmt->bindParam(':oldname', $oldName);
$stmt->bindParam(':newname', $newName);
$stmt->execute();