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Doc Bug #34352 mysqli_connect erroneous example 2
Submitted: 2005-09-02 21:32 UTC Modified: 2005-09-03 10:00 UTC
From: sr at brightlight dot ch Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-09-02 21:32 UTC] sr at brightlight dot ch 
Description:
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Quote from http://php.benscom.com/manual/en/function.mysqli-
connect.php:

Example 2. Procedural style

<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", 
"my_password", "world");

/* check connection */ 
if (!$link) {
   printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
   exit();
}
...
?>
This leads to the wrong assumption mysqli_connect would 
return a link resource which it doesnt.

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 [2005-09-03 05:00 UTC] sr at brightlight dot ch 
I'd also like to point out that in the mysqli documentation 
there is a lot of talk about using procedural style with a 
link-resource. There is no way to actually retrieve the link-
resource. At least none is given in the manual. There is no 
property, mysqli_connect doesnt return one and there is no 
documented method for it.
 [2005-09-03 05:17 UTC] sr at brightlight dot ch 
More careful reading would have helped. I was too used with 
the result beeing of type resource and not object (which didnt 
make sense to me just for a link).
Sorry for the inconvenience.
 [2005-09-03 10:00 UTC] vrana@php.net 
Thus not a bug.
 
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