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Pontus Bolmér
Pontus Bolmér
12,471 Points
Posted by Pontus Bolmér
Pontus Bolmér
12,471 Points

No output from my database server!

Hi! Im trying to get a simple text from my column(messages) from my tabel (mytabel) I know i have spelled the name wrong.

This is my code The problem is, i get no output from it!

What am i doing so wrong?

<?php echo "<br>"; DEFINE('DB_USERNAME', 'root'); DEFINE('DB_PASSWORD', 'root'); DEFINE('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); DEFINE('DB_DATABASE', 'performance_schema');

$mysqli = new mysqli(DB_HOST, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, DB_DATABASE);

if (mysqli_connect_error()) { die('Connect Error ('.mysqli_connect_errno().') '.mysqli_connect_error()); }

echo 'Connected successfully.';

$mysqli->close(); ?>

<?php echo "<br>"; echo "Hello my dear friend!"; $sth = $db->prepare("SELECT messages FROM mytabel"); print_r($sth); exit; $sth->execute(); $result = $sth->fetchAll(); print_r($result); ?>