How to remove the fatal error when fetching an assoc array
Solution 1:
The variable $stmt is of type mysqli_stmt, not mysqli_result. The mysqli_stmt class doesn't have a method "fetch_assoc()" defined for it.
You can get a mysqli_result object from your mysqli_stmt object by calling its get_result() method. For this you need the mysqlInd driver installed!
$result = $stmt->get_result();
row = $result->fetch_assoc();
If you don't have the driver installed you can fetch your results like this:
$stmt->bind_result($dbUser, $dbEmail);
while ($stmt->fetch()) {
printf("%s %s\n", $dbUser, $dbEmail);
}
So your code should become:
$query = "SELECT Username, Email FROM User WHERE User = ?";
// prepare query
$stmt=$mysqli->prepare($query);
// You only need to call bind_param once
$stmt->bind_param("s",$user);
// execute query
$stmt->execute();
// bind variables to result
$stmt->bind_result($dbUser, $dbEmail);
//fetch the first result row, this pumps the result values in the bound variables
if($stmt->fetch()){
echo 'result is ' . dbEmail;
}