For a flipping two hours the code wasn't working. Then I saw this single dot instead of comma...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

What IDE are you using?

@fiskolin methinks gedit

At least you're using mysqli... The folks at SO would be proud.

I agree, an IDE would have saved you lots of frustration on that one mate!

Fuck I had the same sort of issue once. Spent 3 hours trying to get a basic PHP pie chart to print as an image by reading data from a mySQL database to generate the chart.
The image simply would not print, was nearly ready to punch a hole in my monitor.... Apparently having a blank line at the top of the pages first <?PHP tag makes your program do stupid things, or just not work at all. Netbeans IDE was of no help solving this one.

@kalpitjain @Muppens It was quite a long time ago when I was doing uni projects on php and mysql. Later I've used phpstorm for my personal projects :)

Do people still use mysqli in PHP? 😮

You sir are relatable.

Kids, don't code in an IDE/editor that doesn't help you with stuff like this.

Good thing you've started using PhpStorm now 😄

I never understand why people have problems with things like missing semicolons or dots instead of commas. Just look in the fucking error log.

@codeclod methinks you are being sarcastic.. no?

@garrettw I'm not a web dev, so not intentionally

@codeclod oh, ok. FYI, mysqli is no longer a best practice - currently the best option is PDO. @tahnik

@garrettw I've worked with prepared statements, makes sense. I've not used PHP regularly for 6 years

@codeclod I see your profile says java, perl, and python.. so out of curiosity, what language do you primarily use now?

@garrettw primarily Java. Second, python, and I'm inheriting a giant project written in C/C++.

@codeclod some day I want to learn perl. Seems mildly interesting.

@garrettw it was one of the first languages I learned to use in a production environment (for work), as we did a lot of text processing. PHP bears a resemblance to it. We're moving away from it in favor of python but I will always default to it if I need a quick and dirty script to do something.

@codeclod yeah, I feel like it might be easy to pick up due to the PHP resemblance. I also really like that its regex patterns are primitives. But I've always thought its keyword "my" was strange.

It's not required, but it's strongly recommended (use strict enforces it) as a way to prevent variable scope creep and promote explicit declaration. It's a little quirky compared to other languages for sure.