looping a php script to insert data for multiple users - php

Question

I have two tables: phpbb_sn_fms_groups and phpbb_fms_user_groups, which I would like to INSERT into using the two queries below, however the first problem is I can't possibly manually run the two queries ~1000 times for each user_id (56 through 1060). The second problem is I need to INSERT the auto incremented fms_gid from the first query (table: phpbb_sn_fms_groups) into fms_id from the second query (table: phpbb_sn_fms_users_group) when the php script INSERTs each user_id.
// user_id: 56 through 1060
// fms_gid in the table phpbb_sn_fms_users_group needs the unique fms_gid for each row from the table phpbb_sn_fms_groups because it doesn't autoincrement.
$result = mysql_query("INSERT INTO phpbb_sn_fms_groups (fms_gid, user_id, fms_name, fms_clean, fms_collapse) VALUES ('autoincrementednumberthatdoesntneedtobeinserted', '56', 'Staff', 'staff', '0')")
or die(mysql_error());
$result = mysql_query("INSERT INTO phpbb_sn_fms_users_group (fms_gid, user_id, owner_id) VALUES ('inserttheautoincrementednumberfromfms_gidinphpbb_sn_fms_groups', '2', '56')")
or die(mysql_error());
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

This is a great time for PDO.
See http://php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php for connection info but something like
$pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$dbname", $user, $pass);
$pdo->setAttribute( PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION );
// First select the users you need query.
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT id, name FROM users WHERE id BETWEEN 56 AND 1060");
$stmt->execute();
$result = $stmt->fetchAll();
OR if literally 56 through 1060 you can use a for loop.
Then loop through those results to execute
foreach($result as $row) {
$stmt1 = $pdo->prepare("INSERT INTO phpbb_sn_fms_groups (fms_gid, user_id, fms_name, fms_clean, fms_collapse) VALUES ('autoincrementednumberthatdoesntneedtobeinserted', :user_id , 'Staff', 'staff', '0')");
$stmt1->bindParam(":user_id", $row['id']);
$stmt1->execute();
//get last inserted id.
$inserted_id = $pdo->lastInsertId();
$stmt2 = $pdo->prepare("INSERT INTO phpbb_sn_fms_users_group (fms_gid, user_id, owner_id) VALUES (:last_id, '2', :user_id)");
$stmt2->bindParam(":last_id", $inserted_id);
$stmt2->bindParam(":user_id", $row['id']);
$stmt2->execute();
}
Hope this gets you started. Can also be done in mysqli. Don't want to jump into that debate. I just like naming the parameters for binding.