Question

Here is the MYSQLi code:

  public function display() {
    $sql = "SELECT title, date_posted, text, url
              FROM notes ORDER BY date_posted DESC
              LIMIT ?, ?";
    $results = $this->query($sql, "ii",
                              $this->page_offset,
                              $this->notes_per_page);
    $results = $this->db->store_result();
    while ($row = $results->fetch_row()) {
      var_dump($row);
    }
    //$this->write($results);
  }

  // this is the $this->db->query() function referred to above.
  public function query() {
    $args = func_get_args();
    $statement = $this->db->prepare($args[0]);
    $args = array_slice($args, 1);
    call_user_func_array(array($statement, 'bind_param'), &$args);
    $statement->execute();
    return $statement;
  }

The MYSQL table:

mysql> desc notes;
+-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field       | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id          | int(11)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| date_posted | date         | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| title       | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| text        | longblob     | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| url         | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
+-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

A sample row:

mysql> SELECT title, url, date_posted FROM notes WHERE url='init';
+-------+------+-------------+
| title | url  | date_posted |
+-------+------+-------------+
| init  | init | 2011-02-16  |
+-------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

The output for the corresponding row. What in the world…?:

array(4) { [0]=> string(0) “” [1]=>
string(0) “” [2]=> string(4) “init”
[3]=> string(4) “�” }

If I switch fetch_array() to fetch_object(), I get this:

object(stdClass)#3 (4) { [“title”]=>
string(0) “” [“date_posted”]=>
string(0) “” [“text”]=> string(4)
“init” [“url”]=> string(4) “�” }

Thank you for all and any help/suggestions/comments!

New observation:

Adding another column to the query outputs a new column (the wrong one again though). So for example, if:

// and yes, I do realize that I am repeating 'url',
// and I have no clue why this is happening.
$sql = "SELECT title, date_posted, text, url, url
              FROM notes ORDER BY date_posted DESC
              LIMIT ?, ?";

Then the output row is:

array(5) { [0]=> string(0) “” [1]=>
string(0) “” [2]=> string(4) “init”
[3]=> string(4) “�” [4]=>
string(350) “

This is the text for the init article. I cut it short for the sake of brevity in this stackoverflow question
” }

Answer 1

    public function display() {
    $sql = "SELECT title, date_posted, text, url
              FROM notes ORDER BY date_posted DESC
              LIMIT ?, ?";
    $results = $this->query($sql, "ii",
                              $this->page_offset,
                              $this->notes_per_page);
    var_dump($results);
  }



 public function query() {
    $args = func_get_args();
    $statement = $this->db->prepare($args[0]);
    $args = array_slice($args, 1);
    call_user_func_array(array($statement, 'bind_param'), &$args);
    $statement->execute();
    $return = array();
$statement->store_result();
$row=array();
$data = $statement->result_metadata();
$fields = array();
$fields[0] = &$statement;
while($field = $data->fetch_field()) {
$fields[] = &$row[$field->name];
}
call_user_func_array("mysqli_stmt_bind_result", $fields);

$i = 0;
while ($statement->fetch()) {
foreach ($row as $key1=>$value1) $return[$i][$key1] = $value1;
$i++;
}
$statement->free_result();
return $return;


  }