mysql - Fatal error: Call to a member function escapeString() on a non-object in C:xampphtdocs esults.php on line 17

Question

Error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function escapeString() on a non-object in C:xampphtdocs esults.php on line 17

Line 17:

$searchterm=$db->escapeString($_GET['searchterm']);

It is called in mysql.php

public function escapeString($value){

return mysql_escape_string($value);

}

I am using MySQL on localhost.

Answer 1

Your $db variable is not set correctly. It's likely that the connection failed or something else went wrong.

Do this on the line right before 17:

var_dump($db); exit;

Chances are it will be null or false or some other non-object value indicating that the connection failed. To help more, we'd need to know more about what database connection you're attempting to make (mysql, mysqli, PDO, etc).