Re: Re: Mysql DB connect failure

> Would you care to explain to the rest of the list how you intend to use > mysql_error () to return connection failure information? > > It returns the text of the error message from previous MySQL operation > Description: string mysql_error ( [resource link_identifier]) > > Seems to me that without a connection, we wouldn't have a valid > link_identifier. maybe so, but it works nonetheless............. if for example the username stated in the connection initialization was wrong it will print an error like: "Access denied for user: 'username@localhost' (Using password: YES)" MI, my code would look somethign like this: $link = @mysql_pconnect("localhost", "test1", "test1"); // If connection failed... if (!$link) { // Inform user of error and quit print "Couldn't connect to database server<br>\n"; print mysql_error(); exit; } "Jason K Larson" <jlarson@candlefire.org> schreef in bericht news:3E564B92.4070703@candlefire.org... > Would you care to explain to the rest of the list how you intend to use > mysql_error () to return connection failure information? > > It returns the text of the error message from previous MySQL operation > Description: string mysql_error ( [resource link_identifier]) > > Seems to me that without a connection, we wouldn't have a valid > link_identifier. > > What you probably should attempt going for is getting something back > from PHP itself regarding the error returned when the mysql_connect failed. > > Here's a snippet from: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php > > If the track_errors feature is enabled, any error message generated by > the expression will be saved in the global variable $php_errormsg. This > variable will be overwritten on each error, so check early if you want > to use it. > > Hope that clears things up a bit. > > Regards, > Jason k Larson > > > > Hans Prins wrote: > > did you try: > > print mysql_error(); > > > > "Ml" <slickmik@eden.rutgers.edu> schreef in bericht > > news:20030221152240.57775.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > > >