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I just want to select and display data from a database. I think I am following all the tutorials etc. online but something is wrong. My code:
<?php
$user = 'root';
$pass = 'root';
$db='test';
$host ='localhost';
$name = 'ryan';
$mysqli = new mysqli($host, $user, $pass, $db);
if ($mysqli->connect_error) {
die('Connect Error (' . $mysqli->connect_errno . ') '
. $mysqli->connect_error);
}
else{
echo 'Checkpoint 1 <br>';
}
$sql = "SELECT * FROM user WHERE name LIKE ryan";
$result = $mysqli->query($sql);
$num_results = $result->num_rows;
echo'checkpoint 2';
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
echo'checkpoint 3';
?>
I can get to 'checkpoint 2' but for some reason the fetch_assoc() function does not do anything. I am using Netbeans, and the fetch_assoc() does not even turn green as the num_rows function does. fetch_assoc does turn green if I remove both parentheses at the end.
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