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When trying to use mysqli prepared statements I get error: Warning: mysqli_stmt::bind_param() [function.mysqli-stmt-bind-param]: Number of variables doesn't match number of parameters in prepared statement

I am doing a direct copy and paste from the PHP mysqli manpage example code.

[ca.php.net]

I have googled this issue and I found some talking about renaming a library due to a conflict between the php lib and the mysql lib, but I'm not really sure about it.

Is there any way to fix this or is mysqli unusable?