Mysqli prepare giving error, even though SQL statement is valid?

I don't think mysqli can handle compound statements like that (especially since there is a separate commit() function). Instead of START TRANSACTION at the beginning and COMMIT at the end, you'd do $mysqli->autocommit(false) before the query and $mysqli->commit() when you're done.

The problem is that you can only "prepare" a single SQL statement -- you are trying to prepare five SQL statements here.

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