ODBC Error Handling

Is there any way to handle errors returned by failed ODBC Connections? I have a connection that periodically fails in PHP/Apache to an ODBC source. The failure is on the PHP/Apache end as queries from other sources (i.e. iSQL) on the same box continue to work when web pages with the same queries don't. A simple restart of the apache daemon resolves the issue, but without error handling in PHP for ODBC connections, I have to load the page to check for errors and restart the Apache daemon via a perl script. Is there a tricky way of checking errors that I don't know about? When will odbc error-checking be built into php? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Hutch Hicken hutch@bdel.com