Question

How to fetch results from a prepared statement into the bound variables using MySQLi in PHP

Answer 1

$db_host        = 'localhost';
$db_user        = 'root';
$db_password    = '';
$db_name        = 'allonpage';
 
$con = new mysqli('localhost', $db_user, $db_password, $db_name);
 
if ($con->connect_error) 
    die('Connection Error: ' . $con->server_info);
 
$sql = "
  SELECT src, alt
  FROM images
";    
     
if ($stmt = $con->prepare($sql)) 
{
    $stmt->execute();
    
    $stmt->bind_result($src, $alt); 

    // Fetch results from a prepared statement into the bound variables
    $stmt->fetch();
    echo $src . " - " . $alt;
    
    $stmt->close();
}
                                  
$con->close();
 
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Answer 2

$db_host        = 'localhost';
$db_user        = 'root';
$db_password    = '';
$db_name        = 'allonpage';
 
$con = new mysqli('localhost', $db_user, $db_password, $db_name);
 
if ($con->connect_error) 
    die('Connection Error: ' . $con->server_info);
 
$sql = "
  SELECT src, alt
  FROM images
";    
     
if ($stmt = $con->prepare($sql)) 
{
    $stmt->execute();
    
    $stmt->bind_result($src, $alt); 

    // Fetch results from a prepared statement into the bound variables
    while ($stmt->fetch()) 
    {
        echo $src . " - " . $alt . "<br />";
    }
    
    $stmt->close();
}
                                  
$con->close();
 
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