#47064 [NEW]: oo style msqli->connect_error always NULL

From: greg dot hendrickson at yahoo dot com Operating system: Windows XP SP3 PHP version: 5.2.8 PHP Bug Type: MySQLi related Bug description: oo style msqli->connect_error always NULL Description: ------------ Object oriented style mysqli->connect_error string always null even when a connection error occurs. Tried with bogus host name, bogus user name, bogus password, and bogus schemata...result always the same (mysqli->connect_error is NULL). Note: Procedural style always returns expected string value. Installed PHP with Windows Installer, Apache 2.2 Module and the following extensions: BZ2, MCRYPT, MHASH, MYSQLI, PDO, TIDY, XMLRPC, XSL and ZIP. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $mysqli = new mysqli("bogushost", "username", "password", "schemata"); $connecterror = "Object oriented style mysqli->connect_error string: ".$mysqli->connect_error."</br>"; echo $connecterror; printf("Proceedural style mysqli_connect_error string: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error()."</br>"); /* check connection never works*/ if ($mysqli->connect_error()) { printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error()."</br>"); exit(); } /* close connection */ $mysqli->close(); ?> Expected result: ---------------- Object oriented style mysqli->connect_error string: Unknown MySQL server host 'bogus' (11001) Proceedural style mysqli_connect_error string: Unknown MySQL server host 'bogus' (11001) Connect failed: Unknown MySQL server host 'bogus' (11001) Actual result: -------------- Object oriented style mysqli->connect_error string: Proceedural style mysqli_connect_error string: Unknown MySQL server host 'bogus' (11001) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47064&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47064&r=mysqlcfg