How to use mysqli_close() if SQL query being executed in a function and function called on some other page ?
<?php //DB connection // new mysqli(host, user, password, database name); $ DBConnection = mysqli_connect ( " localhost:3308 " , " bit " , " bitbyte " , " bit_yt " ); //Check connection if ( mysqli_connect_errno ()){ echo " Failed to connect to MySQL: ". mysqli_connect_error (); exit (); } function testFunction1 (){ global $ DBConnection ; $ sql = mysqli_query ($ DBConnection , " SELECT * FROM students " ); print_r ( mysqli_fetch_all ($ sql , MYSQLI_ASSOC )); mysqli_close ($ DBConnection ); } function testFunction2 ( $ DBConnection ){ $ sql = mysqli_query ($ DBConnection , " SELECT * FROM students " ); print_r ( mysqli_fetch_all ($ sql , MYSQLI_ASSOC )); mysqli_close ($ DBConnection ); } testFunction1 (); //use any of one testFunction2 ( $ DBConnection );