Not sure how to echo out the Selected data from mysql - php

Question

$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT `nameData` FROM `accountsDone` WHERE `nameToSearch` = ?");
$stmt->bind_param("s", $query);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->store_result();
if ($stmt->affected_rows > 0) {
echo "Exists";
}
Instead of echoing out Exists, I want it to echo out nameData. How can I go about doing that?

Answer 1

First of all, if you want only one row then append LIMIT 1 to your SELECT query, like this:
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT `nameData` FROM `accountsDone` WHERE `nameToSearch` = ? LIMIT 1");
So there are two approaches to display nameData:
Method(1):
First bind the variable $nameData to the prepared statement, and then fetch the result into this bound variable.
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT `nameData` FROM `accountsDone` WHERE `nameToSearch` = ? LIMIT 1");
$stmt->bind_param("s", $query);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->store_result();
if($stmt->num_rows){
$stmt->bind_result($nameData);
$stmt->fetch();
echo $nameData;
}else{
echo "No result found";
}
Method(2):
First use get_result() method to get the result set from the prepared statement, and then use fetch_array to fetch the result row from the result set.
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT `nameData` FROM `accountsDone` WHERE `nameToSearch` = ? LIMIT 1");
$stmt->bind_param("s", $query);
$stmt->execute();
$result = $stmt->get_result();
if($result->num_rows){
$row = $result->fetch_array()
echo $row['nameData'];
}else{
echo "No result found";
}

Answer 2

I think you can below code i hope your query is working fine it returns result properly then you can use below code.
$stmt->bind_result($nameData);
if ($stmt->fetch()) {
printf ("%s\n", $nameData);
}

Answer 3

Note that affected_rows won't do anything useful here.
However, nor you don't need num_rows as well (and therefore store_result too)
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT `nameData` FROM `accountsDone` WHERE `nameToSearch` = ?");
$stmt->bind_param("s", $query);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->bind_result($nameData);
$stmt->fetch();
echo $nameData;
Considering all that hassle, even without useless functions, you may find PDO a way better approach:
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT `nameData` FROM `accountsDone` WHERE `nameToSearch` = ?");
$stmt->execute($query);
echo->$stmt->fetchColumn();