Temporary table definition in MySQL - mysql

Question

I have a stored procedure which uses temporary tables so that I can summarize the sales of all the products within a certain product category. When I tried to run the code it failed. I search on google and here on stackoverflow but couldn't find what I had done wrong. I'm using MySQL server 5.5 on Windows Server.
CREATE PROCEDURE `getStatistics`(IN `startDate` date,IN `endDate` date,IN `categoryName` varchar)
BEGIN
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE procResult(productName VARCHAR, amount INT);
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tblProductID(SELECT ID, `name` FROM product WHERE categoryID = (SELECT ID FROM category WHERE `name` = categoryName));
DECLARE done_amt, done_PID INT DEFAULT FALSE;
DECLARE amount, productID INT DEFAULT 0;
DECLARE pidCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT ID, `name` FROM tblProductID;
DECLARE amtCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT orderlines.amount FROM orderlines WHERE orderlines.productID = productID;
DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET done_amt = TRUE;
DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET done_PID = TRUE;
OPEN pidCursor;
pid_loop:LOOP
DECLARE productName VARCHAR;
FETCH pidCursor INTO productID, productName;
IF done_PID THEN
LEAVE pid_LOOP;
END IF;
OPEN amtCursor;
amt_loop:LOOP
DECLARE tmpAmount INT DEFAULT 0;
FETCH amtCursor INTO tmpAmount;
IF done_amt THEN
LEAVE amt_loop;
END IF;
amount = amount + tmpAmount;
END LOOP;
CLOSE amtCursor;
IF amount > 0 THEN
INSERT INTO procResult VALUES (productName, amount);
amount = 0;
END IF;
END LOOP;
CLOSE pidCursor;
END;

Answer 1

You must define the length of VARCHAR type variables, such as the categoryName parameter to your stored procedure;
You must DECLARE all local variables at the very start of a BEGIN ... END compound statement block, before any other commands;
Your syntax for CREATE TABLE ... SELECT is incorrect;
You have declared two handlers for the same SQL condition, only one of which will be executed (indeterminately);
You will need to change your client's statement delimiter in order for it to understand that the semicolons appearing within the procedure body do not terminate the CREATE PROCEDURE statement;
Your entire procedure is an extremely complicated way of doing a fairly simple task in SQL:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE procResult
SELECT product.name, SUM(orderlines.amount) AS amount
FROM orderlines
JOIN product ON product.ID = orderlines.productID
JOIN category ON category.ID = product.categoryID
WHERE category.name = ?
GROUP BY product.ID
HAVING amount > 0