How to enter POST data into database? - php

Question

Sample code:
echo $mylinks;
Outputted echo:
http://www.google1.com|http://www.google2.com
I want to insert each of these into a database table.
Here's what I was trying to use:
INSERT INTO `backlinks` (`id`, `link`, `apikey`, `date`) VALUES (NULL, '".$mylinks."', '11bebe13ae7fe257d9ddba22a9d1eea3', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
The problem is, it's inserting into the database like this basically:
INSERT INTO `backlinks` (`id`, `link`, `apikey`, `date`) VALUES (NULL, 'http://www.google1.com|http://www.google2.com', '11bebe13ae7fe257d9ddba22a9d1eea3', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
Whereas I want each URL to be entered into its own row like this:
INSERT INTO `backlinks` (`id`, `link`, `apikey`, `date`) VALUES (NULL, 'http://www.google1.com', '11bebe13ae7fe257d9ddba22a9d1eea3', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
INSERT INTO `backlinks` (`id`, `link`, `apikey`, `date`) VALUES (NULL, 'http://www.google2.com', '11bebe13ae7fe257d9ddba22a9d1eea3', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
URLs are separated by a pipe (|) - there's normally more than one URL that's submitted, but sometimes there's only a single URL - in case that makes a difference.
So how do I submit the URLs into my database so each is on a separate row?

Answer 1

mysql will not split that for you, you need to split it yourself.
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("INSERT INTO `backlinks` (`id`, `link`, `apikey`, `date`) VALUES (NULL,:link, '11bebe13ae7fe257d9ddba22a9d1eea3', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)");
foreach (explode("|", $mylinks) as $link) {
$stmt->execute(array(":link" => $link))
}

Answer 2

You can convert this string to an array with php explode function and after that insert data like this:
$array = explode('|', $mylinks);
foreach($array as $key => $value)
//Insert $value into table