Hello! I apologize for troubling this list. I found a problem with the english language documentation on mysqli_query and have attempted to send an email to php...@lists.php.net but am totally unsure if anyone will ever receive it. In any case, I expect the documentation people may need some help correcting the documentation. The text of my issue report follows:
There is a problem with the return value description for mysqli_query, displayed here: https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.query.php Under 'Return Values,' it says: >Returns *false* on failure. For successful SELECT, SHOW, DESCRIBE or EXPLAIN queries *mysqli_query()* will return a mysqli_result <https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.mysqli-result.php> object. For other successful queries *mysqli_query()* will return *true* This is not correct. I can provide one counterexample, which is when you run an optimize query: OPTIMIZE TABLE my_table; This query will return a result set with two records whether the table exists or not. I believe I found the file that should be altered on github here: https://github.com/php/doc-en/blob/master/reference/mysqli/mysqli/query.xml#L111 I do not know what the return value description should be under all the various circumstances.
