Re: Changing the default PDO error mode

On 19/03/2020 12:25, Christian Schneider wrote:

Am 19.03.2020 um 10:31 schrieb Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com>:

I agree defaulting to PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION is a sensible change for PHP8.

I think this should go through a deprecation phase first as it is a BC break, no matter how easy to fix you think it is. - Chris

To clarify: I'm not proposing the silent error mode be removed - it would still exist and developers would be able to switch (back) to it simply by explicitly setting the error mode when creating a PDO object. How do you see that a deprecation would be implemented for this change? A deprecation notice each time a PDO object is created without explicitly setting the error mode? Is this not just as disruptive to existing code as changing the default error handling to warnings? For new users I can see it being more so: Every time a new developer follows an older example they're going to be asking about this deprecation message (or worse, changing error_reporting or using @ to silence it!). Without a deprecation phase, existing examples will continue to work (errors will just be reported differently, but no in an unintuitive way in my opinion) AllenJB