If your IDE isn't recognizing $stmt as an object of type mysqli_stmt when you use the traditional perpare:
$stmt = mysqli_prepare($link, $query);
The following works and is IDE friendly:
$stmt = new mysqli_stmt($link, $query);
If your IDE isn't recognizing $stmt as an object of type mysqli_stmt when you use the traditional perpare:
$stmt = mysqli_prepare($link, $query);
The following works and is IDE friendly:
$stmt = new mysqli_stmt($link, $query);