Re: PEAR difficulties

well, start by finding out what you got back. add this at the top of handle_errors: echo get_class($error); exit; You should get back a PEAR Error object if it is truly an error... --Tony On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Jacob Marble wrote: > Hello everyone, > I use PHP to access a SQL Server database through ODBC on a win2000 > machine, and we want to move to PostgreSQL on a Debian 3.0 machine and > access the data through PEAR. everything is running now, I've migrated to > Postgres without a problem. So all of my data is still intact. Now, here's > my first unconquerable problem: > > <code> > <?php > // this file is intended to serve as a header > // the following line should be at the top of any page that connects to the > LandEZ database > //$connect = odbc_connect("landez_web","",""); // take note ( > "odbc resource > name", "username", "passwd" ) > > require ("DB.php"); > > function handle_errors ($error) { > echo "An error occurred while running your query.<br>\n"; > echo "Error message: " . $error->getMessage() . "<br>\n"; > echo "A more detailed error description: " . $error->getDebugInfo() . > "<br>\n"; > } > > $dsn = "pgsql://postgres:CORRECTPASSWD@localhost/landez_pds"; > $db = DB::connect ( $dsn ); > > handle_errors ( $db ); > ?> > </code> > > Now here's the error (as seen through IE6 on the development machine): > > <error> > An error occurred while running your query. > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getmessage() in > /landez/www/act/header_connect.php on line 10 > </error> > > > Any help == greatly appreciated. > > Thankyou, > > Jake Marble > > LandEZ > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------| Tony Bibbs | "I guess you have to remember that those who don't | tony@tonybibbs.com | hunt or fish often see those of us who do as | | harmlessly strange and sort of amusing. When you | | think about it, that might be a fair assessment." | | --Unknown | ------------------------------------------------------------------------|