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Josh Corneille
7,934 PointsWrong answer is the right answer in quiz after video.
In the PDO Security quiz of PHP & Databases with PDO, the question asked is: What do I need to call on a PDOStatement object after I've bound the parameters? It says the right answer is exec(), which I don't think is right. The answer should be the execute() method.
PDO::exec() does exists (http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.exec.php) but it is a PDOStatement, not a method of one as far as I can tell.
2 Answers
Hampton Paulk
5,093 PointsHowdy Folks, this has been updated! Thank you. Please see this thread for any further questions.
Hugo Paz
15,622 PointsHi Josh,
If you look at the examples provided in that page you can see that the ps->exec() is correct.
PDO::exec() is how you can access a property or method of a class. If you create an object from that class, you access its methods or properties with ->
Josh Corneille
7,934 PointsYou are right about being able to use exec() on a PDO object but not in this situation since you are calling on a PDOStatement object. When I test exec() on a prepared statement I get:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method PDOStatement::exec()
If I use execute() it works. Preceding this question, the video teaches you this code:
$results = $db->prepare('SELECT * FROM film WHERE film_id = ?');
$results->bindParam(1, $film_id);
$results->execute();
So it seems relevant that this question would be asked and the right answer would be execute(), since exec() hasn't been taught in any of the previous lessons.
Hugo Paz
15,622 PointsSeeing the code you posted i believe you are correct. I will contact support about this issue.