PDO prepeared statements PHP Call to undefined method PDO::execute() [duplicate] - php

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I am new to php mysqli ect and i have done my best to arrange a prepeared statement function to no avail. All i get is the following Error.
Call to undefined method PDO::execute()
I donnot understand why this is happening.
The values are being passed and echo'd but i still get this error.
It does not retrieve data from database either as error is called before doing so.
Can anybody see from the code what the problem is.. iv searched about on the net ect. and the closest i got what about checking the Isset of the inputs, but i had allready done this so thats not the issue.
im baffled.
Thanks for any advice... Its probly really simple. But so am i.
<?php
//include('conect.php')
$dbh = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=classifieds", 'root', '');
$type=$_POST['type'];
$price=$_POST['price'];
if (isset($type) && isset($price)) {
echo $type;
echo $price;
$dbh->prepare('SELECT * FROM testdata WHERE type=? AND price=?');
$stm = $dbh->execute(array($type, $price));
if(($row = $stm->fetchObject())) {
$type=$row['type'];
$price=$row['price'];
echo $type;
echo $price;
} else
{ echo "none recieved"; }
} else
{echo "invalid"; }
?>

Answer 1

You have to assign $dbh->prepare('SELECT * FROM testdata WHERE type=? AND price=?'); to a variable and then call execute() method on it.
Example:
$smth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT * FROM testdata WHERE type=? AND price=?');
$result = $smth->execute(array($type, $price));
That's because PDO doesn't have execute method but PDOStatement object resolved from prepare method does.