From: Peter Brawley
Date: March 11 2006 5:53pm
Subject: Re: mysql_commect or die
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fbsd_user wrote:
>    mysql_connect("localhost","root") 
>         or die("Unable to connect to MySQL server");
>
>   $err mysql_connect("localhost","root");
>   if ($err != 0) {
>
> Under what conditions will the die clause be taken.
>
> What is in $err  if there is a error?
>
> Are these 2 statements basically doing the same thing?
>   
mysql_connect() returns a PHP connection resource on success, FALSE on 
failure; or ... executes if the func returns FALSE. To see what the 
error is, try ... or exit( mysql_error() ). Best practice is to build 
your own generic error handler around this functionality.

PB
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