Printing an entire SQL result from a prepared statement in PHP - php

Question

I'm trying to build a function that allows me to abstract the use of the mysqli functions in my code. Currently I have a working version for using standard SQL (no prepared statements).
function mySqlQueryToArray($con, $sql){
// Process SQL query
$result = mysqli_query($con, $sql);
if(mysqli_error($con)){
out($sql . "\n");
exit("ERROR: MySQL Error: " . mysqli_error($con));
}
// Put result into 2D array
$output = array();
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
array_push($output, $row);
}
return $output;
}
Now I'm trying to translate that code into something that can use prepared statements but my research has revealed that when using prepared statements you need to bind each column to a different variable using mysqli_stmt::bind_result which causes a problem because the point of the function is to work for an arbitrary SQL Query.
My main question is this: Is there a way to print out the entire output from a SQL query in a 2D array same as the function above does using prepared statements?
Here's my current code for using prepared statements, it has everything but the bind_result in there.
//Creates a MySQL Query, gets the result and then returns a 2D array with the results of the query
function mySqlQueryToArray($con, $sql, $params){
// Prepare SQL query
$stmt = $con->prepare($sql);
if(mysqli_error($con)){
echo "$sql=>\n" . print_r($params, true) . "\n";
exit("$sql=>\n" . print_r($params, true) . "\nERROR: MySQL Error: " . mysqli_error($con));
}
// Bind parameters
foreach($params as $param){
$type = "s";
if(gettype($param) == 'integer'){
$type = "i";
}
$stmt->bind_param($type, $param);
}
//execute query
$stmt->execute();
// Put result into 2D array
$output = array();
// ??? need to bind results and get them into an array somehow
//close prepared statement
$stmt->close();
return $output;
}

Answer 1

PDO turns out to be the answer. I feel like I should post the code I created to solve my problem. Thanks to #Don'tPanic for the tip.
function pdoQuery($sql, $params){
$db = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=My_Database;charset=utf8', 'username', 'password', array(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false, PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION));
try {
$stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
$stmt->execute($params);
$rows = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
return $rows;
}catch(PDOException $ex){
echo "ERROR: SQL Error: $sql";
// logError("ERROR: SQL Error: $sql");
}
}