mysqli bind_result & fetch returns fewer columns

[toffmjr]

I have the following code:\[code\]<?php $mysqli = new MySQLi($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_select); $stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT new_title, new_subtitle, new_description FROM news WHERE new_id = ?"); $stmt->bind_param("i", $selected_id); $stmt->execute(); $stmt->bind_result($news_title, $news_subtitle, $news_description); $stmt->fetch(); $stmt->free_result(); $stmt->close(); $mysqli->close();?><?php echo $news_title; ?><br /><?php echo $news_subtitle; ?><br /><?php echo $news_description; ?>\[/code\]The problem is that $news_description comes back empty although there is a value in the db!Please note that I encountered that problem before (with a different table and fields) but I did not try to solve it because I changed my plans regarding that page. Now unfortunately, I must solve it and I have been at for 3 days now and still no go!Thank you!