Can I mix MySQL APIs in PHP?

Question

I have searched the net and so far what I have seen is that you can use mysql_ and mysqli_ together meaning:

<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost", "root" ,"" ,"mysql");

if( mysqli_connect_errno( $con ) ) {
    echo "failed to connect";
}else{
    echo "connected";
}
mysql_close($con);
echo "Done";
?>

or

<?php
$con=mysql_connect("localhost", "root" ,"" ,"mysql");
if( mysqli_connect_errno( $con ) ) {
    echo "failed to connect";
}else{
    echo "connected";
}
mysqli_close($con);
echo "Done";
?>

Are valid but when I use this code what I get is:

Connected
Warning: mysql_close() expects parameter 1 to be resource, object given in D:\************.php on line 9
Done

For the first and the same except with mysqli_close(). For the second one.

What is the problem? Can't I use mysql_ and mysqli together? Or is it normal? Is the way I can check if the connections are valid at all? (the if(mysq...))

Answer 1

No, you can't use mysql and mysqli together. They are separate APIs and the resources they create are incompatible with one another.

There is a mysqli_close, though.