I'm trying to run a pretty simple script that does the following: Takes the id of a content module and assigns it to multiple locations
So say I click the link on a content module with ID of 123, I want to assign it to all multiple locations. In SQL I would just say :
INSERT INTO table (cont_id,loc_id)
VALUES (123, select(id from location_table where active = 1))
I'm currently using this:
$pageID = $_GET['pageID'];
$assignPage = "
INSERT INTO locationContent(page_id, display_id)
VALUES ( '$pageID', select(id from locations where active = 1))
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE active = 1
";
$performAssign = $mysqlConn->query($assignPage);
The issue I'm wondering about though, is do I need to put this into a foreach or while loop? If I were to just run as is, I feel like that would only work for one record
You can't mix the INSERT INTO .. VALUES
and INSERT INTO ... SELECT
syntax, however SELECT constant, var FROM ..
is possible like:
$assignPage = $mysqlConn->prepare("
INSERT INTO locationContent(page_id, display_id)
SELECT :page as page_id, id FROM locations WHERE active = 1
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE active = 1
";
$performAssign = $assignPage->execute(array('page' =>$pageID));
You seem to be looking for MySQL INSERT ... SELECT
syntax.
From the documentation:
With
INSERT ... SELECT
, you can quickly insert many rows into a table from the result of a SELECT statement, which can select from one or many tables.
Query:
INSERT INTO locationContent (page_id, display_id)
SELECT ?, id FROM locations WHERE active = 1
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE active = 1
The ?
stands for parameter $pageID
(you do want to use parameterized queries and prepared statement to protect your code against SQL injection).