title: Warning: mysqli_query() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli, resource given
body: <p>I got this error in my code and I don't know how to solve it my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  session_start();
  include_once"connect_to_mysql.php";
  
  $db_host = "localhost";
  // Place the username for the MySQL database here
  $db_username = "root"; 
  // Place the password for the MySQL database here
  $db_pass = "****"; 
  // Place the name for the MySQL database here
  $db_name = "mrmagicadam";
  
  // Run the actual connection here 
  $myConnection= mysql_connect("$db_host","$db_username","$db_pass") or die ("could not connect to mysql");
  mysql_select_db("mrmagicadam") or die ("no database");        
  $sqlCommand="SELECT id, linklabel FROM pages ORDER BY pageorder ASC";
  $query=mysqli_query($myConnection, $sqlCommand) or die(mysql_error());
  $menuDisplay="";
  
  
  while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
      $pid=$row["id"];
      $linklabel=$row["linklabel"];
  $menuDisplay='&lt;a href="index.php?pid=' .$pid . '"&gt;' .$linklabel. '&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;';
  }
  mysqli_free_result($query);
  
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and this is error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Warning: mysqli_query() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli, resource given in C:\xampp\htdocs\limitless\connect_to_mysql.php on line 17</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What I am doing wrong?</p>