odbc_pconnect() not returning 0 (FALSE) on error

[simulant]

When I intentionally give pconnect() the wrong userid or password or dsn, PHP is generating a Warning in the log, and is NOT returning 0, as the docs say it's supposed to:

Here is a segment of my code:

  $this->name = "dbname";
  $this->user = "user12";
  $this->pass = "1234";

  function db2Connect() {
    return ($this->conn = odbc_pconnect($this->name,$this->user,$this->pass));
  } // db2Connect

  // and when calling this function from another class:
  $db2obj = new db2();
  if (!$db2obj->db2Connect()) {
    // handle error
  }

Why can't I get the return value?????

:mad:

• TIM

[simulant]

Oh, here's the warning I'm getting (when intentionally giving it the wrong dbname):

[11-Apr-2003 14:19:19] PHP Warning: SQL error: [IBM][CLI Driver] SQL1013N The database alias name or database name "dbnamezz" could not be found. SQLSTATE=42705, SQL state 08001 in SQLConnect in /mnt/local/ricaxa01/bin/APACHE_1.3.26/htdocs/en_US/php/test/include/db2.class.php on line 44

I get a similar message for invalid userid's and passwords....but NO return value! How am I supposed to handle this error??