How to make sure script executes completely before executing? - php

Question

I have a script which is containing some queries:
$id = $_GET['id'];
$value = $_GET['val'];
// database connection here
// inserting
$stm1 = $db_conn->prepare("INSERT into table1 (col) VALUES (?)");
$stm1->execute(array($value));
// updating
$stm2 = $db_conn->prepare("UPDATE table2 SET col = "a new row inserted" WHERE id = ?");
$stm2->execute(array($id));
As you see there is two statements (insert and update). All I'm trying to do is making sure both of them work or none of them.
I mean I want to implement a dependency between those two statements. If updating fails, then inserting shouldn't work and vice versa. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You could use sql transactions
http://www.sqlteam.com/article/introduction-to-transactions

Answer 2

You can use transactions and PDO has an api for this (http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.begintransaction.php),
$id = $_GET['id'];
$value = $_GET['val'];
// database connection here
try{
$db_conn->beginTransaction();
// inserting
$stm1 = $db_conn->prepare("INSERT into table1 (col) VALUES (?)");
$stm1->execute(array($value));
// updating
$stm2 = $db_conn->prepare("UPDATE table2 SET col = "a new row inserted" WHERE id = ?");
$stm2->execute(array($id));
$db_conn->commit();
}
catch(PDOException $e){
$db_conn->rollBack();
}

Answer 3

As others said, you could use 'transactions'.
Or
you could mannualy check whether the data is right in the database. Just 'select' what you have inserted.
The 'execute' function return 'true' on success or 'false' on failure. You can do something like:
$isDone=$stm1->execute(array($value));
if(!$isDone){
echo 'Operation fails, I will stop.';
return false;
}