Question

I am working on a friend list function and I can’t figure out how to correctly receive the values.

My code looks like this:

$getuid = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT `uid` FROM `users` WHERE  name = ? OR name = ?");
$getuid->bind_param("ss", $user, $friend);
$getuid->execute();
$getuid->bind_result($uid);
$getuid->fetch();
$getuid->close();
$resetpass = $mysqli->prepare("INSERT INTO `friendlist` SET `friend1`=?, `friend2`=?, `accept`=0");
$resetpass->bind_param("ss", $uid[0], $uid[1]);

With the first query I get exactly two uid values back. I want to use them in the second query. It seems like bind_result is not working, neither as array nor when using two values in bind_result. How can I do this using mysqli. I can’t use get_result because I’m on PHP 5.2 .

Anyone able to help me?

Answer 1

Okay I finally understood the concept of fetch.

In order to receive all the values I have to retrieve them in a while-loop.

Here is the solution:

$getuid = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT `uid` FROM `users` WHERE  name = ? OR name = ?");
$getuid->bind_param("ss", $user, $friend);
$arra = array();
$getuid->execute();
$getuid->bind_result($uid);
while ($getuid->fetch()) {
    $arra[] = $uid;
}

Now I can call the array values using $arra[0] and $arra[1]