Dynamic Database function for getting and setting data - php

Question

I have created a class to handle all database operations for my application. So far I have gathered and displayed the data in foreach statements within my view. What I wish to be able to do is get and set individual elements from a function from my database class.
Here is my database function for displaying data within a foreach:
public function test($sql, $type, $param)
{
$variables = array();
$results = array();
// Mysqli
if($stmt = $this->AC->Mysqli->prepare($sql))
{
$params = array_merge($type, $param);
call_user_func_array(array($stmt, 'bind_param'), $this->make_values_referenced($params));
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->store_result();
// Existance
if($stmt->num_rows > 0)
{
$meta = $stmt->result_metadata();
while($field = $meta->fetch_field())
{
$parameters[] = &$row[$field->name];
}
call_user_func_array(array($stmt, 'bind_result'), $parameters);
while($stmt->fetch())
{
$elemet = array();
foreach($row as $key => $val)
{
$element[$key] = $val;
}
$results[] = $element;
}
return $results;
}
else
{
$results = FALSE;
return $results;
}
}
else
{
die("ERROR: We could not connect.");
}
}
The function below is called from my model:
public function profile_information($account_name)
{
// Mysqli Variables
$sql = "SELECT $this->account_details.bio
FROM account_details
WHERE $this->account_details.account_name = ? LIMIT 10";
$type = array("s");
$param = array($account_name);
$results = $this->AC->Database->prepared_select_loop($sql, $type, $param);
$this->AC->Template->set_data('profile_information', $results, FALSE);
}
Once set within my model, I call the function within my controller and access it within my view with a foreach for displaying data:
$profile_information = $this->get_data('profile_information');
foreach ($profile_information as $row) :
//Displaying data here
endforeach;
The above works fine for displaying a large amount of data, but what I'm wanting to do is call the a database function that will allow me set individual data elements. Therefore not having to use a foreach if im only getting a limited amount of data (i.e. one row of Name, age, address)
A non dynamic way I have tackled this problem is to write the database for every function that only desires one row from the database:
function name($variable)
{
$sql = 'statement here';
$stmt = $this->AC->Mysqli->prepare($sql);
$stmt->bind_param("i", $id);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->store_result();
$stmt->bind_result(bind results);
$stmt->fetch();
$this->AC->Template->set_data('id', $id);
$this->AC->Template->set_data('account_name', $account_name);
}
So in basically I want to make the above statement refactored into my database class and thus making it more dynamic.
I dont know how I would be able to tackle this problem, I don't want to use PDO, as I wish to find a solution within Mysqli. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Would you recommend just switching over to PDO?
Definitely.
Whole your function test() could be rewritten into three lines (assuming $param contains an array with parameters for the prepared statement):
public function test($sql, $param)
{
$stmt = $this->AC->pdo->prepare($sql);
$stmt->execute($param);
return $stmt->fetchAll();
}