is this news to anybody else? (Mysqli OOP is same as procedural)

[rodobrist]

Hi all,
I was experimenting with the differences between using a mysqli resource ie:

"procedural":

PHP Code:

$handle=mysqli_connect('localhost','usr','pass','DBNAME');
$result=mysqli_query($handle,SELECT * FROM tablename); 


"OOP":

PHP Code:

$dbc= new MySQLi('localhost','usr','pass','DBNAME');
$result=$dbc->query($handle,SELECT * FROM tablename); 


nothing fancy here, but what really surprised me was this:

"procedural":

PHP Code:

$handle=mysqli_connect('localhost','usr','pass','DBNAME');
$result=$handle->query($handle,SELECT * FROM tablename); 


"OOP":

PHP Code:

$dbc= new MySQLi('localhost','usr','pass','DBNAME');
$result=$mysqli_query($dbc,SELECT * FROM tablename); 


hopefully you can all see what i am getting at. Maybe you all knew this but I thought there was a distinct difference between a handle/resource (which i think are the same in php) and an Object and I'm pretty sure i read that mysqli_connect returns a resource.

I double checked the manual, and mysql_connect returns a resource, whereas mysqli_connect returns an object.

thought this was worth sharing