#40850 [NEW]: The connection to a MySQL Server don't return FALSE if the connection failed.

From: serge dot dominici at e-sd dot org Operating system: win32 PHP version: 5.2.1 PHP Bug Type: MySQLi related Bug description: The connection to a MySQL Server don't return FALSE if the connection failed. Description: ------------ When creating the mysqli object, it don't return FALSE as said in the documentation, if the connection failed. Reproduce code: --------------- try { $this->mysqli = @new mysqli('localhost', 'bad_user', 'password', 'db'); if ($this->mysqli == FALSE) { throw new Exception("Connection failed !"); } var_dump($this->mysqli); var_export($this->mysqli); } catch (Exception $e) { $e->showStackTrace(); } Expected result: ---------------- object(mysqli)#5 (0) { } mysqli::__set_state(array( )) Actual result: -------------- Connection failed ! -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=40850&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40850&r=mysqlcfg