Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now [SOLVED]

I'm trying to run a few queries in sequence and I keep getting the error Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now in my php logs.

I have read: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4323...ommand-now, however I am not able to update /system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_result.php

I've tried:
```
        $this->db->reset_query();
        $this->db->close();
        $this->db->initialize();
        $this->db->reconnect();
        mysqli_next_result( $this->db->conn_id );
        $query->free_result();
```
But they either give me the same error, or different errors which I will detail in the comments of my code.

The way my code is organized- I have a make_query method that takes a bunch of search options and figures out which tables to join and fields to search based on those.  Sometimes, I just want to count results, sometimes I want all of the resulting data, sometimes I just want distinct values for certain fields or to group by certain fields.  So I call make_query with my options, and then decide what to select afterwards.  I have also been saving my query text to report, so that users can see what query is being run. 

One interesting thing I have noted is that when I have no options set (ie there are no WHERE clauses in my SQL), I do not get this error and the multiple queries are able to run with no problem!

Here is my code:

Code:

//Get rows from tblPlots based on criteria set in options array
    public function get_plot_data($options=array()){
        $this->db->save_queries = TRUE;
        log_message('debug','before make query 1 get plot data');
        $this->make_query($options,'plot'); 
        log_message('debug','after make query 1 get plot data');
        $this->db->distinct();
     
        //Now, set select to return only requested fields
        if (!empty($options['fields']) and $options['fields']!="all" ){
            //Because other tables could be joined, add table name to each select
            array_walk($options['fields'], function(&$value, $key) { $value = 'tblPlots.'.$value;} );
            $this->db->select($options['fields']);
        }

        if (!empty($options['limit']) and $options['limit']>0){
            $this->db->limit($options['limit'], $options['offset']);
        }     
        //Get the resulting data
        $result=$this->db->get('tblProgram')->result();
        $query_text = $this->db->last_query();  //tried removing this but didn't help
        log_message('debug','query text '.$query_text); 
        $this->db->save_queries = FALSE;
        //get the number of rows
        //$this->db->reset_query();
        //$this->db->close();
        //$this->db->initialize();
        //$this->db->reconnect();
        //mysqli_next_result( $this->db->conn_id );
        //$this->db->free_result(); //Call to undefined method CI_DB_mysqli_driver::free_result()
        //$result->free_result(); //Call to a member function free_result() on array

        log_message('debug','before make query 2');
        $this->make_query($options,"plot");
        $this->db->select('pkProgramID');
        log_message('debug','before count results');
//this is where my code errors out trying to do the next step:
        $count=$this->db->count_all_results('tblProgram');
}

I'm not including the code for make_query because it is long and calls other functions, but it runs successfully the first time and outputs the SQL query I would expect.  If it would be helpful, I can include that code as well.

I'm not sure how to correctly call free_result() given that the CI documentation only gives an example using query('SQL QUERY'), so I'm not sure how to use free result in my scenario?  Maybe that's the issue? 

Code:

$query2 = $this->db->query('SELECT name FROM some_table');
$query2->free_result();

Thank you for any help!

Please Read:

stackoverflow - Why is mysqli giving a "Commands out of sync" error?

And

MySQLi - B.3.2.12 Commands out of sync

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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OK, so I've tried everything in https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/...-sync.html (see above) but maybe I'm not calling those commands correctly? I've tried:

$result = $this->db->store_result();
$this->db->free_result();

also tried:
if ($result = $this->mysqli->store_result())
{
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
$this->Data[$i][] = $row;
}
//mysqli_free_result($result); this didn't do anything
$this->mysqli->free_result($result) //this didn't either
}

also tried calling this after each query:
public function clearStoredResults(){
$db_id = $this->db->conn_id;
do {
if ($res = $this->db->call_function("store_result", $db_id)) {
$res->free();
}
} while ($this->db->call_function("more_results", $db_id) && $this->db->call_function("next_result", $db_id));
}

Also tried updating the _execute code in this system folder according to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3632...sync-error

Also tried after each query:
$this->free_result();

function free_result() {
while (mysqli_more_results($this->conn) && mysqli_next_result($this->conn)) {

$dummyResult = mysqli_use_result($this->conn);

if ($dummyResult instanceof mysqli_result) {
mysqli_free_result($this->conn);
}
}
}

Still no luck. Now I'm not even getting an error message, I just get my messages I've added myself using log_message. I get successfully logged messages after every line, up until I try to get a result using: $result=$this->db->get('tblProgram')->result(); Then the logs are blank and I eventually get a 500 Server Error (sometimes I then get repeated 500 server errors for minutes after trying to refresh the page)

I've also tried just writing out my query to the console, and not getting results using $result=$this->db->get('tblProgram')->result(); to make sure the query is correct. The query is coming back as a successful query I can run on the database.

Any other suggestions?

I found this YouTube video that may help.

Fix Commands out of Sync ERROR

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Joined CodeIgniter Community 2009.  ( Skype: insitfx )

That worked, thank you!!!

Your welcome, some times it takes a little bit of effort to find the correct answer.

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Joined CodeIgniter Community 2009.  ( Skype: insitfx )

Try:

$this->db->close();
$this->db->initialize();

Or even:

$this->db->reconnect();

It's already been solved.

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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