Using MySQLi from another class in PHP
Solution 1:
There are several bad practices that led you to this error.
Clearly, extending User from a Database is a wrong move. Also, the whole Database class is rather useless as it doesn't do anything useful.
Hence I would suggest to
- get rid of the useless Database class.
- create a single $db instance from vanilla mysqli.
- pass it as a constructor parameter into every class that needs a database connection
database.php:
<?php
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
$db = new mysqli("localhost", "DBUserName", "UserPassword", "SelectedDB");
$db->set_charset('utf8mb4');
myapi.php
<?php
class MyAPI
{
protected $db;
public function __construct($db, $request_uri, $postData, $origin)
{
$this->db = $db;
}
public function getUser($id)
{
$sql = "SELECT * FROM users where id=?";
$stmt = $this->db->prepate($sql);
$stmt->bind_param("s", $id);
$stmt->execute();
$result = $stmt->get_result();
return $result->fetch_assoc();
}
}
app.php
<?php
# require_once 'Database.php';
# require_once 'myapi.php';
require 'vendor/autoload.php'; // autoloading is a must
$api = new MyAPI($db, $request_uri, $postData, $origin);
$user = $api->getUser($_POST['id']);