trying to display records from database using php - php

this is my first question here so feedback on how to improve my questions would be appreciated.
I am trying to display records from a database using PHP.
Here is the code
<?php
$dbConn = new mysqli('localhost', 'twa037', 'twa037Dg', 'autoservice037');
if($dbConn->connect_error) {
die("failed to connect to the database: " . $dbConn->connect_error);
}
else
{
echo "success";
}
$sql = "select * from customer ";
if ($dbConn->query($sql) )
{
echo "query successful";
}
while($row = $sql->fetch_assoc()) {
echo $row['familyName'];
}
$dbconn->close();
?>
I am able to connect to the database and also the query appears to be working fine as it is displaying "success" and "query successfull".
However, I am getting this error
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function fetch_assoc()
on string
Before you guys suggest this could be a duplicate of another post, I have noticed that in the other posts they have used the same code as I have without an issue.

mysqli_query returns a result on that you can call fetch_assoc(). not on the querystring itself.
if ($result = $dbConn->query($sql) )
{
echo "query successful";
}
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
more informations you can find here

while($row = $sql->fetch_assoc()) <=> while($row = $dbConn->query($sql)->fetch_assoc())

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