vicky sable
vicky sable

Reputation: 65

mysqli_result value to variable in php

Echo of facultyname is showing a value but fid is not getting value. I want to assign value of fid to a variable.

$facultyname=$_POST['facultyname'];
echo $facultyname;

$query="SELECT fid FROM faculty WHERE fname='$facultyname'";
$fid_result=mysqli_query ($link,$query);
$finfo = mysqli_fetch_field($fid_result);
 printf("FacultyID :- %d     ",$finfo->fid);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1726

Answers (1)

Meenesh Jain
Meenesh Jain

Reputation: 2528

change field to assoc

 $finfo = mysqli_fetch_field($fid_result);

to

$finfo = mysqli_fetch_assoc($fid_result);

Read - for reference

Fetch field

Fetch Assoc

Upvotes: 1

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