Flash Flood Early Warning System -FFEWS

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Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function prepare() on null in D:\xampp\htdocs\flashflood\conn.php:28 Stack trace: #0 D:\xampp\htdocs\flashflood\conn.php(40): getFCTDate(NULL) #1 D:\xampp\htdocs\flashflood\create_ticker_div.php(2): require_once('D:\\xampp\\htdocs...') #2 D:\xampp\htdocs\flashflood\includes\header.php(424): require_once('D:\\xampp\\htdocs...') #3 D:\xampp\htdocs\flashflood\structure_based_forecast.php(2): require_once('D:\\xampp\\htdocs...') #4 {main} thrown in D:\xampp\htdocs\flashflood\conn.php on line 28