So your query has failed (see MySQLi connect for how we made $conn
)
$result = $conn->query('SELECT * FROM non_existent_table'); // This query will fail
How do we find out what happened? $result
is false
so that's no help. Thankfully the connect $conn
can tell us what MySQL told us about the failure
trigger_error($conn->error);
or procedural
trigger_error(mysqli_error($conn));
You should get an error similar to
Table 'my_db.non_existent_table' doesn't exist