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Bug #73234 emulated statements let value dictate parameter type
Submitted: 2016-10-03 15:19 UTC Modified: 2016-10-07 14:28 UTC
From: adambaratz@php.net Assigned: adambaratz (profile)
Status: Closed Package: PDO Core
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 [2016-10-03 15:19 UTC] adambaratz@php.net 
Description:
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See test script. I would expect both statements to return NULL. Given the looseness of PHP's type system, this feels appropriate and safer. There's a related issue where numbers can end up treated as strings.

Test script:
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$db = new PDO(...);

$stmt = $db->prepare("SELECT :null");
$stmt->bindValue(':null', null, PDO::PARAM_NULL);
$stmt->execute();
var_dump($stmt->fetchAll()); // NULL

$stmt = $db->prepare("SELECT :null");
$stmt->bindValue(':null', 0, PDO::PARAM_NULL);
$stmt->execute();
var_dump($stmt->fetchAll()); // 0

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 [2016-10-07 14:28 UTC] adambaratz@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: adambaratz
 [2016-10-10 22:16 UTC] adambaratz@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of adambaratz
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=32b6154a61fae820386527f3019f8c5937fc5d27
Log: Fix #73234: Emulated statements let value dictate parameter type
 [2016-10-10 22:16 UTC] adambaratz@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2017-01-12 09:12 UTC] krakjoe@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of adambaratz
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=32b6154a61fae820386527f3019f8c5937fc5d27
Log: Fix #73234: Emulated statements let value dictate parameter type
 [2018-08-10 21:29 UTC] asherkin at limetech dot io 
Just as a note for any other archaeologists, this "safer" change caused near-total data loss in production thanks to a faulty query that had been masked by the previous behaviour here (thankfully, backups).

In a DB with a string ID column, and a query that did "DELETE FROM table WHERE id = ?", the parameter was incorrectly being bound with PARAM_INT.

As this code was before, it worked fine as the type of the parameter was indeed a string, but after the change it got coerced to 0, which caused MySQL to coerce every id in the table to an integer as well (most of them also ending up as 0), and thus caused the condition to match almost every row.

(Queries very simplified as an example, the original was an IN clause, hence no defensive LIMIT 1.)

The new behaviour is definitely saner, but with the chance of catastrophic data loss thanks to MySQL's odd type casting priority, in hindsight it probably should've been opt-in.
 [2019-05-01 09:14 UTC] nikic@php.net 
Related To: Bug #77954
 
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