MySQLi: query VS prepare

Question

There is something I don\'t quite understand it at all which is prepare and query in mysqli.

This one is using mysqli::query t

Answer 1

Sorry that this is not an answer, but I am not good enough to actually leave a comment.

It looks like there is a bug in your second function. Your code won't work correctly for queries that return more than one row. Shouldn't that return statement be:

while($stmt->fetch()) {

    //to dereference
    $row_copy = $parameters;
    $return_array[] = $row_copy;

}

And then the function should end with:

return $return_array;