How can I put the results of a MySQLi prepared statement into an associative array?

Question

I have a sql query and a mysqli prepared statement:

$sql = \'SELECT photographers.photographer_id, photographers.photographer_name
    FROM photographers\';
         


        

Answer 1

A simple one that actually surprisingly works. I know it's procedural, but still:

$query = "SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar = ?;";

$stmt = mysqli_prepare($dbc, $query);

mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "s", $bar);

mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);

$result = mysqli_stmt_get_result($stmt);

return mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);