Do you have to specify the link in most of the mysqli_ functions? My thinking is that MySQLi has the link parameter first because that is essential for MySQLi to work correctly. In the mysql_ functions it didn't matter too much if you didn't specify the link because if only one connection was open, then that was obviously the default.

My question, why is the link parameter essential for MySQLi?

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