mysqli_select_db
    (PHP 5)
mysqli_select_db
    (no version information, might be only in CVS)
mysqli->select_db -- Selects the default database for database queries
Description
bool 
mysqli_select_db ( object link, string dbname)
     The mysqli_select_db() function selects the default
     database (specified by the dbname parameter) to be 
     used when performing queries against the database connection 
     represented by the link parameter.
    
Anmerkung: 
      This function should only be used to change the default database for the connection. 
      You can select the default database with 4th parameter in mysqli_connect().
     
Return values
     Gibt bei Erfolg TRUE zurück, im Fehlerfall FALSE.
    
Example
Beispiel 1. Object oriented style 
<?php $mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
  /* check connection */ if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {     printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());     exit(); }
  /* return name of current default database */ if ($result = $mysqli->query("SELECT DATABASE()")) {     $row = $result->fetch_row();     printf("Default database is %s.\n", $row[0]);     $result->close(); }
  /* change db to world db */ $mysqli->select_db("world");
  /* return name of current default database */ if ($result = $mysqli->query("SELECT DATABASE()")) {     $row = $result->fetch_row();     printf("Default database is %s.\n", $row[0]);     $result->close(); }
  $mysqli->close(); ?>
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Beispiel 2. Procedural style 
<?php $link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
  /* check connection */ if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {     printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());     exit(); }
  /* return name of current default database */ if ($result = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT DATABASE()")) {     $row = mysqli_fetch_row($result);     printf("Default database is %s.\n", $row[0]);     mysqli_free_result($result); }
  /* change db to world db */ mysqli_select_db($link, "world");
  /* return name of current default database */ if ($result = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT DATABASE()")) {     $row = mysqli_fetch_row($result);     printf("Default database is %s.\n", $row[0]);     mysqli_free_result($result); }
  mysqli_close($link); ?>
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     The above examples would produce the following output:
    
Default database is test.
Default database is world.  |