Question

I am not sure this is a bug or not but at times when I retrieving a result using mysql, I get this:

$result->fetch_array();

mysqli_result Object (
    [current_field] => 0
    [field_count] => 1
    [lengths] => Array (
        [0] => 3
    )
    [num_rows] => 1
    [type] => 0
) Fatal error: Cannot use object of type mysqli_result as array

And looking at the documentation, it should either return an array or null, not an object. Is this a bug?

A look at that code when condensed looks like this:

$query="SELECT * FROM table where id=''";
$result=$link->query($query);
$row=$result->fetch_array();
print_r($row);

Answer 1

The sample code does not reproduce the issue (which all sample code should do) in PHP 5.3.4.

$result is of type mysqli_result. Based on that and the dumped values, you’re using $result where you should be using $row.