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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- $Revision$ -->
+<refentry xml:id="function.mysqli-connect" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
+ <refnamediv>
+  <refname>mysqli_connect</refname>
+  <refpurpose>&Alias; <methodname>mysqli::__construct</methodname></refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsect1 role="description">
+  &reftitle.description;
+  <para>
+   &info.function.alias; <methodname>mysqli::__construct</methodname>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
+sgml-indent-data:t
+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"~/.phpdoc/manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->
+