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This is a bluehost question posted by ziltmilt on 22 November 2008

I’m trying to teach myself some basic stuff w/ PHP and interacting w/ MySQL. I really like the syntax and the neat features that come with PHP.

But, i’m trying to do something dead easy, and I’m getting nowhere. I’m trying to do a simple display of rows in a table (which only has 2 rows). The error I’m getting says that I’m trying to call a member function on a non-object, and it’s flagging the line where I’m using query() on a $db variable that I thought was connecting to my dbase.

I’m getting tripped up on which version of PHP and mySQL. I think the book I’m referencing is a few years old because it mentions using PEAR for db connections. Is that true, or should I instead be using mySQLi ? Neither is working for me.

Here’s the code I’ve been fiddling with.

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