Select or update single value using object oriented mysqli concept - php

Question

I have these two methods which are used to set a flag in my users table.
I can see my setEmailSent function is working well, but isEmailSent always return 0, even its value is set to 1.
class Mydatabase{
function connect(){
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);
ini_set("error_log","/log/php_error_log");
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
error_reporting('1');
$connect_error = 'Sorry we are experiencing down time.';
$host = "some.com";
$username = "username";
$password ='password';
$db = "loginregister";
$mysqli = new mysqli($host, $username, $password, $db) or die($connect_error);
return $mysqli;
}
}
function isEmailSent($username){
//**********************************************************************************
// #Desc - will check if email already sent to the user
// #Parms - str username
// #return - details int
//**********************************************************************************
//set up database connection
$db = new Mydatabase();
$mysqli = $db->connect();
//sql statement
$sql = "SELECT `emailSent` FROM `users` WHERE `username` = ?";
//sql prepare statement
$stmt= $mysqli->prepare($sql);
//bind sql params
$stmt->bind_param('s', $username);
//sql execute statement
$stmt->execute();
//store sql result
$stmt->store_result();
//bind sql result
$stmt->bind_result($emailSent);
return $emailSent;
}
function setEmailSent($userName){
//**********************************************************************************
// #Desc - will set that email already sent to the user
// #Parms - str username
//**********************************************************************************
//set up database connection
$db = new Mydatabase();
$mysqli = $db->connect();
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("UPDATE `users` SET `emailSent`=? WHERE `username`=?");
if ($stmt === false) {
trigger_error($mysqli->error, E_USER_ERROR);
}
$stmt->bind_param('is', $emailSent,$userName);
$emailSent = 1;
$stmt->execute();
}
Can anyone tell me where I am wrong ???

Answer 1

You need to fetch data after bind_result as
$stmt->bind_result($emailSent);
$stmt->fetch();// fetch data
return $emailSent;// then return
Read bind_result