Call to a member function bind_param() on a non-object MySQLi

Question

Okay, so I\'m trying to update a blog entry, and I\'m getting Call to a member function bind_param() on a non-object when I try to run the script. I have done extensive rese

Answer 1

$stmt is probably false.

if ($stmt = $mysqli->prepare(...)) {
    $stmt->bind_param(...);
    ...
}
else {
    printf("Errormessage: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
}

Answer 2

I solved that by testing the queries manually. It turned out to be a matter of putting each field name between back ticks and removing any quotes against the parameters labeled with question marks inside the query.

Answer 3

If all the connections to the database are correct, try looking for the syntax in the query. For me, I was performing a join and did not specify the "TABLENAME" in the where clause-field for which both the tables have a column.