Re: DB error reporting and DB/ifx.php
| From: | Chuck Hagenbuch | Date: | Wed, 28 Feb 2001 04:03:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: DB error reporting and DB/ifx.php | ||
| Groups: | php.pear | ||
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Quoting "Tomas V.V.Cox" <cox@idecnet.com>:
> // an especific database method
> function getNativeError (){
> return '<br><b>'.ifx_error().'</b> '.ifx_errormsg();
> }
This is a nit in the context of your message, but it's an important nit: don't
put html in error messages. If you have to return a structured string, use xml
so that users can transform it into whatever form they need. But I think we
should try to have all PEAR error messages be unstructured strings or error
codes, so that programmers using the APIs can do whatever they need to do with
errors with a minimum of fuss.
-chuck
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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
"We have no fuel on board, plus or minus 8 kilograms." -A NASA scientist