MDB2 checking valid connection

Hi guys, MDB2 team - great job on the package! Kudos to Lucas Smith - last week I logged two issues and they were fixed within hours! Pretty impressive ;) Now I have a small issue, and I'm not sure if I should log a bug on this, so here goes. In the example.php from MDB2's /doc there is the following code: $db =& MDB2::factory($dsn); // With PEAR::isError you can differentiate between an error or // a valid connection. if (PEAR::isError($db)) { die (__LINE__.$db->getMessage()); } I don't think that's a valid way to check the connection, $db will never be an error object, because the connection is not tried at this point. AFAIK, connection is attempted on-demand, during the first real database operation, e.g. a query. And so my question is what is the best way to check for a valid connection? Regards, Stoyan -- Stoyan Stefanov http://www.phpied.com