Although inspired by an earlier post, this method could be added to any of your database objects. It's an object oriented implementation of an earlier post.

The method returns an array with objects representing a row. Each property represents a column and its value.
 
<?php
    private function getresult($stmt)
    {
      $result = array();
      
      $metadata = $stmt->result_metadata();
      $fields = $metadata->fetch_fields();

      for (;;)
      {
        $pointers = array();
        $row = new stdClass();
        
        $pointers[] = $stmt;
        foreach ($fields as $field)
        {
          $fieldname = $field->name;
          $pointers[] = &$row->$fieldname;
        }
        
        call_user_func_array(mysqli_stmt_bind_result, $pointers);
        
        if (!$stmt->fetch())
          break;
        
        $result[] = $row;
      }
      
      $metadata->free();
      
      return $result;
    }
?>