MySQLi Prepared Statement Query Issue

I'm relatively new to MySQLi prepared statements, and running into an erro开发者_StackOverflow中文版r. Take this code:

$user = 'admin';
$pass = 'admin';

if ($stmt = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE username='$user' AND     password='$pass'"))
{
echo $stmt->num_rows;
}

This will display "1", as it should.

This next piece of code though, returns "0":

$user = 'admin';
$pass = 'admin';

if ($stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT * FROM members WHERE username=? AND password=?"))
{
$stmt->bind_param("ss", $user, $pass);
$stmt->execute();
echo $stmt->num_rows;
}

Any ideas why?

you need to call store_result() before you get the number of rows

$user = 'admin';
$pass = 'admin';


if ($stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT * FROM members WHERE username=? AND password=?"))
{
$stmt->bind_param("ss", $user, $pass);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->store_result();  // add this line
echo $stmt->num_rows;
}