Lost some hours to find out how to save multirows result of mysqli_stmt to array, when get_result prohibited.
Idea, which works is using store_result
            $stmt=$this->mysqli->prepare("SELECT surname, name, user_id, last_m_own, last_m_str, role FROM users WHERE referer_id=(?)");
                $stmt->bind_param('i',$referer_id);
                $stmt->execute();
                $stmt->store_result();
                $stmt->bind_result($ans['surname'], $ans['name'], $ans['user_id'], $ans['last_m_own'], $ans['last_m_str'], $ans['role']);
                $j=$stmt->num_rows;
                for ($i=0;$i<$j;$i++){
                    $stmt->data_seek($i);
                    $stmt->fetch();
                    foreach ($ans as $key=>$value){
                        $result[$i][$key]=$value;
                    }
                }
Hope will helpful for such newbies as me

When using prepare to prepare a statement to retrieve LOBs the method order matters.
Also, method 'store_result()' must be called and be called in correct order.
Failure to observe this causes PHP/MySQLi to crash or return an erroneous value.
The proper procedure order is: prepare -> execute -> store_result -> bind -> fetch
The following applies to a Windows SBS server running IIS/6.0 + PHP 5.2.1
MySQL server version 5.0.26-community-nt, client version 5.0.51a

<?php
$database = "test" ;
$table = "test" ;
$column = "flongblob" ;
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "root", "<secret_password>", $database);
// Proper procedure order: prepare -> execute -> store_result -> bind -> fetch
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT `$column` FROM `$table`") ;
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->store_result(); 
// Fetch a record. Bind the result to a variable called 'value' and fetch.
$stmt->bind_result($value) ;
$res = $stmt->fetch() ;
if($res)
{
  // strlen($value) should have LOB length, not 1 or zero.
  echo "$column data length is " . strlen($value) . " bytes.\n" ;
}
else
{
  echo ((false !== $res) ? "End of data" : $stmt->error) . "\n" ;
  break ;
}
// Fetch another record.
$res = $stmt->fetch() ;
if($res)
{
  // strlen($value) should have LOB length, not 1 or zero.
  echo "$column data length is " . strlen($value) . " bytes.\n" ;
}
else
{
  echo ((false !== $res) ? "End of data" : $stmt->error) . "\n" ;
  break ;
}
$stmt->close() ;
$mysqli->close() ;
exit ;
?>

The above example should output:
  flongblob data length is 932353 bytes.
  flongblob data length is 867300 bytes.

If wrong procedure order MySQLi crashes or outputs:
  flongblob data length is 0 bytes.
  flongblob data length is 867300 bytes.

fetch_fields() does not seem to be compatible with prepared statements like those used here. Makes things difficult if you're using a wildcard. I guess that's better for security in some obscure way.

In response to the note below me for the claim that mysqli_fetch_fields is not compatible with prepared statements.

This is untrue, it is but you have to do a little extra work. I would recommend you use a wrapper function of some sort to take care of the dirty business for you but the basic idea is the same.

Let's assume you have a prepared statement like so. I am going to use the procedural way for simplicity but the same idea can be done using the object oriented way:

<?php

// Connect Blah Blah Blah.

$connectionLink = mysqli_connect( .... );

// Query Blab Blah Blah.

$query = "Select `Id` From `Table` Where `Id` = ?";

// Prepare Query.

$prepareObject = mysqli_prepare( $connectionLink , $query );

// Bind Query.

mysqli_stmt_bind_param( $prepareObject , 'i' , 1 );

// Execute Query.

mysqli_stmt_execute( $prepareObject );

?>

Now all the above is fine and dandy to anyone familiar with using prepared statements, but if I want to use mysqli_fetch_fields or any other function that fetches meta information about a result set but does not work on prepared statements?

Enter the special function mysqli_stmt_result_metadata. It can be used as follows, assume the following code segment immediatley follows that of the above code segment.

<?php

$metaData = mysqli_stmt_result_metadata( $prepareObject );

// I Can Now Call mysqli_fetch_fields using the variable
// $metaData as an argument.

$fieldInfo = mysqli_fetch_fields( $metaData );

// Or Even This.

$fieldInfo = mysqli_num_fields( $metaData );

?>

Take a look at the Manual entry for mysqli_stmt_result_metatdata function for full details on how to expose it with prepared statements.

Good Luck,