Having trouble executing a SELECT query in a prepared statement

Question

Ive followed a bunch of different examples regarding using a SELECT in a prepared statement, but nothing is returned. EDIT I have changed my code a bit to look lik

Answer 1

Not at all a fan of "bind_result" in mysqli beyond the simplest one-row-expected queries.

Stuffing a whole row into a single array item is better done with:

$stmt->execute();
$result = $stmt->get_result();
while ($data = $result->fetch_assoc())
    {
        $retvar[] = $data;
    }
$stmt->close();

or

while ($data = $result->fetch_row())

if you don't want/need the field names.