using mysqli instead of mysql accessing the DB - mysql

Question

please find below a script in php that that fetch data from my database company, the database is in phpMyadmin
I understand that there are secure ways to fetch data. My question is
Can I improve the code below using mysqli to fetch instead of mysql_query.
<?php
get results from database. Can I improve the code below using mysqli to fetch instead of mysql_query in the following line?.
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM customer")
or die(mysql_error());
tables begins here with the customer id and customer name
echo "<table >";
echo "<tr>
<th>ID</th> the customer id
<th>Name</th> the customer name
</tr>";
// loop through results of database query, displaying them in the table
the table below display the columns in html using mysql fetch array. all data is displayed.
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
// echo out the contents of each row into a table
my purpose is embed the php in html in another way using msqli
echo "<tr>";
echo '<td>' . $row['CustomerID'].'</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['Name']. '</td>';
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
?>
my purpose is embed the php in html in another way using msqli

Answer 1

Just replace all the mysql with mysqli
$result = mysqli_query("SELECT * FROM customer");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array( $result )) {
If you wanna keep it simple
Or do it like this...
/*Your connection info goes here...*/
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}
$query = "SELECT * FROM customer";
if ($result = $mysqli->query($query)) {
echo "<table ><tr><th>ID</th><th>Name</th></tr>";
/* fetch results by row */
while ($row = $result->fetch_row()) {
echo "<tr><td>' . $row['CustomerID'].'</td><td>' . $row['Name']. '</td></tr>';
}
/* free the result set */
$result->close();
}
/* close the connection */
$mysqli->close();