Question

I am trying to figure out how to get the return value to post. My code is as follows

    <?php

$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost","user","password","db");

$lname=$_POST['lname'];


$query= "SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE lname = '".$lname."'";
$result = $mysqli->query($query);     
if (!$result) {
  printf("Query failed: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
  exit;
}      

return $result;
?>

I am pretty new to php, but what i am doing is getting a name posted to the php file, it then goes to the database, finds all values that have the last name inputted, and then i want it to return the values and then print them

Answer 1

See mysqli_result::fetch_assoc

<?php

$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost","user","password","db");

$lname=$_POST['lname'];


$query= "SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE lname = '".$lname."'";
$result = $mysqli->query($query);     
if (!$result) {
  printf("Query failed: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
  exit;
}      
while ($contact = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
    echo $contact['name']."<br>\n";
}
?>