PDO MySQL: Insert multiple rows in one query

Solution 1:

An easy way for this avoiding the complications would be something like this

$stmt = $pdo->prepare('INSERT INTO foo VALUES(:a, :b, :c)');
foreach($data as $item)
{
    $stmt->bindValue(':a', $item[0]);
    $stmt->bindValue(':b', $item[1]);
    $stmt->bindValue(':c', $item[2]);
    $stmt->execute();
}

However, this executes the statement multiple times. So, it is better if we create a long single query in order to do this.

Here is an example of how we can do this.

$query = "INSERT INTO foo (key1, key2) VALUES "; //Prequery
$qPart = array_fill(0, count($data), "(?, ?)");
$query .=  implode(",",$qPart);
$stmt = $dbh -> prepare($query); 
$i = 1;
foreach($data as $item) { //bind the values one by one
   $stmt->bindValue($i++, $item['key1']);
   $stmt->bindValue($i++, $item['key2']);
}
$stmt -> execute(); //execute