note 53572 added to function.mssql-get-last-message

MSSQL_GET_LAST_MESSAGE() has the major disadvantage, that only the last row of the SQLServer message will be returned. And in most cases, this last row has no significant information or is even empty. In the meanwhile, I migrated my PHP-SQLServer application from MSSQL to ODBC, and now I use ODBC_ERRORMSG() instead of MSSQL_GET_LAST_MESSAGE(). And this function works o.k. I think that's a good idea to use ODBC instead of the native database interfaces. The performance seems to be at the same level. And your application can easily ported to other database systems. The only minus of ODBC vs. MSSQL known to me is that ODBC cannot process return values of stored procedures. No problem for most developers! Regards, Klaus P.S.: Here is a small workaround for, the malfunctioning of MSSQL_GET_LAST_MESSAGE: function get_sql_error ($con) { $sql = "select @@ERROR as code"; $result = mssql_query($sql, $con); $row = mssql_fetch_array($result); $code = $row["code"]; // error code $sql = "select cast (description as varchar(255)) as errtxt from master.dbo.sysmessages where error = $code and msglangid = 1031"; // german $result = mssql_query($sql, $con); $row = mssql_fetch_array($result); if ($row) $text = $row["errtxt"]; // error text (with placeholders) else $text = "onknown error"; mssql_free_result($result); return "[$code] $text"; } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mssql-get-last-message.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+53572 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53572&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53572&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53572&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53572&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53572&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+53572&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php