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Doc Bug #71392 Incosistent recommendations whether to use mysqli_free_result()
Submitted: 2016-01-16 19:47 UTC Modified: 2020-12-13 15:33 UTC
From: marcgala at hotmail dot com Assigned: dharman (profile)
Status: Closed Package: MySQLi related
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 [2016-01-16 19:47 UTC] marcgala at hotmail dot com 
Description:
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http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli-result.free.php explicitly claims that:
"You should always free your result with mysqli_free_result(), when your result object is not needed anymore."
However, both examples at http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli-stmt.get-result.php use mysqli_result and do never call any variant of mysqli_free_result().
This is inconsistent.

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 [2016-12-31 18:44 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Package: Documentation problem +Package: MySQLi related
 [2020-12-13 15:33 UTC] dharman@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: dharman
 [2020-12-13 15:33 UTC] dharman@php.net 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed
in the latest released version of PHP, which you can download at
http://www.php.net/downloads.php

The misleading note was removed. Thanks for pointing it out. 
PR: https://github.com/php/doc-en/pull/240
 
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