Connect to Multiple Databases using MySQLi

Question

I need to connect to two databases using PHP and use the results from the first query to get the rest of the data I need out of a second database.

So for the second c

Answer 1

This isn't tested, but I think it would go something like this.

query($query) or die("Error in query");
$thing1 = '';
// check result
if($result1->num_rows){
    //fetch result as object
    $row = $result1->fetch_object();

    //set attributes
    $thing1 = $row->Name;
}   


//build query 2
$query2 = "SELECT * FROM AnotherTable WHERE Id = '$thing1'";

$result2 = $dbc2->query($query) or die("Error in query");
$thing2 = '';
// check result
if($result2->num_rows){
    //fetch result as object
    $row = $result2->fetch_object();

    //set attributes
    $thing2 = $row->Name;
}

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