Call to undefined method mysqli_stmt::get_result

Question

Please read the user notes for this method:

http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli-stmt.get-result.php

It requires the mysqlnd driver... If it isn't installed on your webspace you will have to work with bind_result() & fetch()!

So if the MySQL Native Driver (mysqlnd) driver is not available, and therefore using bind_result and fetch instead of get_result, the code becomes:

include 'conn.php';
$conn = new Connection();
$query = 'SELECT EmailVerified, Blocked FROM users WHERE Email = ? AND SLA = ? AND `Password` = ?';
$stmt = $conn->mysqli->prepare($query);
$stmt->bind_param('sss', $_POST['EmailID'], $_POST['SLA'], $_POST['Password']);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->bind_result($EmailVerified, $Blocked);
while ($stmt->fetch())
{
   /* Use $EmailVerified and $Blocked */
}
$stmt->close();
$conn->mysqli->close();

Your system is missing the mysqlnd driver!

If you are able to install new packages on your (Debian/Ubuntu-based) server, install the driver:

sudo apt-get install php5-mysqlnd

and then restart your web server:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

for those searching for an alternative to $result = $stmt->get_result() I've made this function which allows you to mimic the $result->fetch_assoc() but using directly the stmt object:

function fetchAssocStatement($stmt)
{
    if($stmt->num_rows>0)
    {
        $result = array();
        $md = $stmt->result_metadata();
        $params = array();
        while($field = $md->fetch_field()) {
            $params[] = &$result[$field->name];
        }
        call_user_func_array(array($stmt, 'bind_result'), $params);
        if($stmt->fetch())
            return $result;
    }

    return null;
}

as you can see it creates an array and fetches it with the row data, since it uses $stmt->fetch() internally, you can call it just as you would call mysqli_result::fetch_assoc (just be sure that the $stmt object is open and result is stored):

//mysqliConnection is your mysqli connection object
if($stmt = $mysqli_connection->prepare($query))
{
    $stmt->execute();
    $stmt->store_result();

    while($assoc_array = fetchAssocStatement($stmt))
    {
        //do your magic
    }

    $stmt->close();
}

With PHP version 7.2 I just used nd_mysqli instead of mysqli and it worked as expected.

Steps to enable it into godaddy hosting server-

1. Login to cpanel.
2. Click on "Select PHP version".
3. As provided the snapshot of the latest configurations uncheck "mysqli" and enable "nd_mysqli".

I know this was already answered as to what the actual problem is, however I want to offer a simple workaround.

I wanted to use the get_results() method however I didn't have the driver, and I'm not somewhere I can get that added. So, before I called

$stmt->bind_results($var1,$var2,$var3,$var4...etc);

I created an empty array, and then just bound the results as keys in that array:

$result = array();
$stmt->bind_results($result['var1'],$result['var2'],$result['var3'],$result['var4']...etc);

so that those results could easily be passed into methods or cast to an object for further use.

Hope this helps anyone who's looking to do something similar.