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# mysqli_stmt_store_result

(PHP 5)

mysqli_stmt_store_result

(no version information, might be only in CVS)

mysqli_stmt->store_result -- Transfers a result set from a prepared statement

## Description

Procedural style:

bool mysqli_stmt_store_result ( mysqli_stmt stmt )

Object oriented style (method):

class mysqli_stmt {
bool store_result ( void )
}

You must call mysqli_stmt_store_result() for every query that successfully produces a result set (SELECT, SHOW, DESCRIBE, EXPLAIN), and only if you want to buffer the complete result set by the client, so that the subsequent mysqli_stmt_fetch() call returns buffered data.

> Note: It is unnecessary to call mysqli_stmt_store_result() for other queries, but if you do, it will not harm or cause any notable performance in all cases. You can detect whether the query produced a result set by checking if mysqli_stmt_result_metadata() returns NULL.

## Return Values

Returns `TRUE` on success or `FALSE` on failure.

## See Also

mysqli_prepare(), mysqli_stmt_result_metadata() and mysqli_stmt_fetch().

## Examples

Example 1. Object oriented style
`<?php /* Open a connection */ $mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world"); /* check connection */ if (mysqli_connect_errno()) { printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error()); exit(); } $query = "SELECT Name, CountryCode FROM City ORDER BY Name LIMIT 20"; if ($stmt = $mysqli->prepare($query)) { /* execute query */ $stmt->execute(); /* store result */ $stmt->store_result(); printf("Number of rows: %d.\n", $stmt->num_rows); /* free result */ $stmt->free_result(); /* close statement */ $stmt->close(); } /* close connection */ $mysqli->close(); ?>`

Example 2. Procedural style
`<?php /* Open a connection */ $link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world"); /* check connection */ if (mysqli_connect_errno()) { printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error()); exit(); } $query = "SELECT Name, CountryCode FROM City ORDER BY Name LIMIT 20"; if ($stmt = mysqli_prepare($link, $query)) { /* execute query */ mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt); /* store result */ mysqli_stmt_store_result($stmt); printf("Number of rows: %d.\n", mysqli_stmt_num_rows($stmt)); /* free result */ mysqli_stmt_free_result($stmt); /* close statement */ mysqli_stmt_close($stmt); } /* close connection */ mysqli_close($link); ?>`

The above example will output:

    Number of rows: 20.

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