Question

Ok, so I have been working a Mysql class. I am making a form that will get information about the user logged in. I have a function with in the class that is supposed to do this but I am having a hard time accomplishing this. I am using Prepared Statements. What I want to do is return an array of the data from the database.

Here is the code I have so far:

<?php

require_once('constants.php');

class Mysql {

    private $conn;

    function __construct(){
        $this->conn = new mysqli(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME) or 
            die("There was an issue connecting to the database");
    }

    function user_info($username){
        //query
        $query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = ? LIMIT 1";

        //prepare query and execute
        if($stmt = $this->conn->prepare($query)){
            $stmt->bind_param('s', $username);
            $stmt->execute();

            //WHAT DO I DO HERE

            $stmt->close();
            return $data;
        }
    }
}
?>

Answer 1

After the execute you would do something like this:

/* bind result variables */
$stmt->bind_result($user_id, $user_lastname); // Add all the variables you need

/* fetch value */
$stmt->fetch();

echo 'The user ID is: ' . $user_id;