Fetching data from database into array - php

Question

I am using mysqli to fetch data from the database and put it into an array with a while loop. When i echo out the array i get an empty array however in a function i previously did this code worked but it had a different result from the database. I know that the database is giving out good data because when i echo out the result $idGroup it gives me 2 which is correct.
Ps i know it will keep replacing itself because i don't specify an index
private function Groups()
{
$functionRun = 0;
$i = 0;
$helperArray = array();
$this->grouplist = array();
$query = "SELECT GroupName, Groups.idGroup
FROM Groups
INNER JOIN Members
ON Groups.idGroup = Members.idGroup
WHERE Members.idMember = ? ";
//prepare query and execute
if($stmt = $this->connection->prepare($query))
{
$stmt->bind_param('s', $this->id);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->bind_result($GroupName, $idGroup);
while ($stmt->fetch())
{
$helperArray[] = $idGroup;
}
echo $helperArray;
}

Answer 1

Use print_r when dealing with arrays. Use echo on strings.

Answer 2

Try this
$query = "SELECT GroupName, Groups.idGroup
FROM Groups
INNER JOIN Members
ON Groups.idGroup = Members.idGroup
WHERE Members.idMember = ? ";
//prepare query and execute
if($stmt = $this->connection->prepare($query))
{
$stmt->bind_param('s', $this->id);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->bind_result($GroupName, $idGroup);
$helperArray =array();
while ($stmt->fetch())
{
$helperArray[] = $idGroup;
}
print_r($helperArray);
}