Please be aware that the behaviour of this operator changed from php5 to php7.
The following code will raise a Fatal error no matter what, and you wont be able to suppress it
<?php
function query()
{
$myrs = null;
$tmp = @$myrs->free_result();
return $tmp;
}
var_dump(query());
echo "THIS IS NOT PRINT";
?>
more info at: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78532&thanks=3