--TEST-- Test the bindColumn method using PDO::PARAM_NULL and PDO::PARAM_STMT --SKIPIF-- --FILE-- "int", "CharCol" => "nvarchar(20)")); insertRow($conn, $tbname, array("IntCol" => 10, "CharCol" => "ten")); $stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT IntCol FROM table1"); $stmt->execute(); // PARAM_NULL returns null $stmt->bindColumn('IntCol', $intCol, PDO::PARAM_NULL); $row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_BOUND); if ($intCol == null) { echo "intCol is NULL\n"; } else { echo "intCol should have been NULL\n"; } $stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT CharCol FROM table1"); $stmt->execute(); // PARAM_STMT is not supported and should throw an exception $stmt->bindColumn('CharCol', $charCol, PDO::PARAM_STMT); $row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_BOUND); echo "PARAM_STMT should have thrown an exception\n"; } catch (PDOException $e) { print_r($e->errorInfo[2]); echo "\n"; } ?> --EXPECT-- intCol is NULL PDO::PARAM_STMT is not a supported parameter type.