Call to a member function bindParam() on a non-object

Question

I\'m working a log-in script that I found on the web. (http://alias.io/2010/01/store-passwords-safely-with-php-and-mysql/)

As I was trying to make it work, I stumble

Answer 1

your connection object is mysqli, you should use PDO to connect mysql like

$dsn = 'mysql:dbname=testdb;host=127.0.0.1';
$user = 'dbuser';
$password = 'dbpass';

try {
    $dbh = new PDO($dsn, $user, $password);
} catch (PDOException $e) {
    echo 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
}