I had a free web hosting service through Cisco that allowed MYSQL. Through some struggling I finally got their undocumented internal MYSQL scripts to work and got my db up and running.
When I attempted to connect to this database through PHP using
@ $db = new mysqli('hostname','mysqlusername','mysqluserpassword','databasename') ;
it crashed.
I contacted the help desk for this free hosting service and was told that perhaps my problem was that I was that mysqli (the oop call) might not work in php safe mode.
Can anyone either point me to some documentation that can enlighten me about this, or explain it to me (using small words since I'm an old retired guy)?