While loop PHP get_result not working

Question

I am trying to get rows from the database using MySQl prepared statements and get result. However this is not working.

Please can someone see where I am going wrong? I

Answer 1

Try this:

$stmt = $mysqli->prepare('SELECT posts.id FROM tags JOIN posts ON posts.id = tags.post_id WHERE tag = ?');

...

$stmt->bind_result($id);    

while ($stmt->fetch()) {

    // var_dump entire row to ensure the key you expect is avail
    var_dump($id);

}

Upate

If you want to do a select *, vs having to specify EVERY column individually, check out this post (not the accepted answer, but the highest scoring answer). Otherwise I strongly urge you to check out PDO, as it makes these basic read ops much easier.