note 87026 rejected from language.operators.logical by danbrown

Note Submitter: loaded67 at hotmail dot com ---- Dear sandaimespaceman at gmail dot com You are putting some really, really bad practice into use here! die() and exit(); kill your script! Which in most cases should be avoided as much as possible. It does not provide any advantages whatsoever! Even worse is suppressing errors with @ unless you can replicate the errors yourself. However your example is horrible! Let's take a look at http://www.php.net/mysql_connect it says at the return values: "Returns a MySQL link identifier on success, or FALSE on failure. " I assume you want to know what went wrong if the connection fails, so you can fix it. <?php $connection = @mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass); if(!$connection){ echo 'connection failed: '.mysql_errno($connection).' => '.mysql_error($connection).'<br />'.PHP_EOL; } else{ //connected, proceed! } ?> Hence you get a message instead of killing your complete application and wondering where it all went wrong.... Very bad practice to use exit() or die here! This is more related to mysql_connect then Logical Operators by the way. Admins should remove your post IMO.