I have a stored proc that does a geospatial query. The proc issues two sql statements but only the 2nd one does a query but unfortunately both statements produce a result set. I need the second result set which contains the results of the actual query.
The first statement sets a bounding box:
SET @bbox = 'POLYGON(($polygon))'; \n
SELECT * , AsText( location )
FROM users
WHERE Intersects( location, GeomFromText( @bbox ) ) [snipped for brevity]
If I run the above in phpMyAdmin, it works but I get the following message AFTER the SET command is issued and I want to throw this away:
# MySQL returned an empty result set (i.e. zero rows).
On the php side, I build the query string, calling the stored proc and on return the first thing I do is throw away the empty result set.
$query = "CALL usp_queryByPolygon('$polygon', $msg_id, $user_type)";
$result = mysqli_query($cxn, $query) or die("GEOCODE: queryPolygon - " .sql_error());
sql_free_result($result);
After throwing away the result set I now need the results of the query and this is what I have done:
$result = sql_next_result();
The problem is when I try to use this second result set as in:
if(mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0)
I get errors:
Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given
in /blah/blah/module.php on line 96
To complicate things, all of the above is in a loop and there could be dozens or 100’s of polygons to search.
So the question is this: what is the proper way to get that 2nd result set?
Found out the two statements: SET @bbox and SELECT can be executed sequentially so mysqli and the two results are just fodder that don’t need to be dealt with.