Error Issue when trying to use IN in wordpress database

Question

Hii,

I have this:

$villes = '"paris","fes","rabat"';
$sql    = 'SELECT distinct telecopie FROM `comptage_fax` WHERE `ville` IN(%s)';
$query  = $wpdb->prepare($sql, $villes);

when I do an echo $query; i get:

SELECT distinct telecopie FROM `comptage_fax` WHERE `ville` IN('\"CHAPELLE VIVIERS \",\"LE MANS \",\"QUEND\"')

the probleme i have is that $wpdb add ' in IN('...')

can someone help, thanks

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

Try this code :

// Create an array of the values to use in the list
$villes = array("paris", "fes", "rabat");    

// Generate the SQL statement.
// The number of %s items is based on the length of the $villes array
$sql = "
  SELECT DISTINCT telecopie
  FROM `comptage_fax`
  WHERE `ville` IN(".implode(', ', array_fill(0, count($villes), '%s')).")
";

// Call $wpdb->prepare passing the values of the array as separate arguments
$query = call_user_func_array(array($wpdb, 'prepare'), array_merge(array($sql), $villes));

echo $query;

Hope this work!!

thank you!!