Verified answer

i suppose you are using procedural style of code

if you have something like $link = mysqli_connect............

then do this

mysqli_query($query,$link);//what ever query you have

if your doing OO i don't think you are doing this

then you have a line like this

$link = new mysqli(....);

then do this

$link->query($query);

they recommend you don't mix the two styles