Question

The code below works fine except it throws a warning when connecting to a database that does not exist. This works fine in product where errors are off, but I would rather not have errors if I don’t need to.

function cpanel_db_connect($dbname) {
    // normalize
    $dbname = convert_to_slug($dbname);
    $dbname = CPANEL_USER . '_' . $dbname;

    $dbuser = CPANEL_USER . '_' . CPANEL_DB_USER;

    // connnect database
    $mysqli = new mysqli(CPANEL_DB_HOST, $dbuser, CPANEL_DB_PASS, $dbname);

    if ($mysqli->connect_error) {
        return false;
    }

    return $mysqli;
}

Answer 1

$mysqli = @new mysqli(CPANEL_DB_HOST, $dbuser, CPANEL_DB_PASS, $dbname);

The above works!