Ok, turns out, after double checking my servers mysqli support using phpinfo(),
and doing a bit more research, and finding the following bit of
introductory/instructional/tutorial material, relating to the mysqli PHP
extension, on the php.net site itself, that other sample code I had found a
little while back was just incorrect syntactically itself - making use of
object oriented coding/approach, but excluding necessary keywords, like new,
etc., but anyway:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.mysqli.php
In other words, whereas it had said:
$sql = mysqli("hostName", "user", "password", "database");
it should in fact have stated:
$sql = new mysqli("hostName", "user", "password", "database");
That meant you could then access properties and methods of the then
instantiated mysqli object using the -> operator, so, for a simple example of a
statement, instead of mysqli_close($sql); it would instead read $sql->close();
In other words, it primarily makes use of an object oriented approach to
database integration/manipulation, instead of the simple, procedural only
approach of just calling functions all the time, but anyway.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
