PHP and MySQL error: Object of class mysqli_result could not be converted to string

Question

I am getting the error:

Object of class mysqli_result could not be converted to string.

Code:

Answer 1

$result is a result object. From thje manual for mysqli_query():

Returns FALSE on failure. For successful SELECT, SHOW, DESCRIBE or EXPLAIN queries mysqli_query() will return a mysqli_result object. For other successful queries mysqli_query() will return TRUE.