Passing an Array As A Function's Parameters Using (...$array)

I'm trying pass an array as a function's parameters, and am having some trouble. Here's the function.

$stmt->bind_param();

I was researching this and found that you can use this:

$stmt->bind_param(...$values);

This worked well on my developmental server (PHP 7.0.0), but when I inputted it into another server (PHP 5.*), I got the following error:

syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting ')'

Upon further research, I tried:

call_user_func_array(array($stmt, 'bind_param'), $values);

and got this error:

call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, first array member is not a valid class name or object

I know that I could just input the parameters and everything will work out fine, but I need the function to take any number of parameters (which is what led to the function idea).

Here's the function:

function updateId($id, $data){

    $mysqli = dbConnect::connect();

    $sm=array();
    $values=array();
    $dataString = array();

    foreach($data as $column=>$value){
        $dataString[] = ($column .'= ?');
        $values[] = $value;
        if(gettype($value)==="string"){
            $sm[] = 's';
        }elseif(gettype($value)==="integer"){
            $sm[] = 'i';
        }elseif(gettype($value)==="double"){
            $sm[] = 'd';
        }else{
            $sm[] = 'b';
        }
    }

    $dataString = implode(', ',$dataString);
    $sm = implode('',$sm);

    $prepString = "UPDATE $this->tablename SET $dataString WHERE id=$id";

    array_unshift($values, $sm);

    $stmt = $mysqli->prepare($prepString);
    $stmt->bind_param(...$values);
    $stmt->execute() or die($stmt->error);
    $stmt->close();
    $mysqli->close();

}

Solution

You are getting an error because you pass non-reference values to bind_param. You can use call_user_func_array, but you must make sure that the values you pass are references. This you can achieve as follows:

Change this:

$values[] = $value;

to this:

$values[] = &$data[$column];

And (like you already did) change this:

$stmt->bind_param(...$values);

into this:

call_user_func_array(array($stmt, 'bind_param'), $values);