What does @SomeFunction mean?

JamesBrauman

If I have:

$currentquery = @mysql_query("Blah blah");

What does the '@' symbol in front of the function name do?

Thanks.

madwormer2

It suppresses any errors that might arise from the function.

Don't use it if you can help it.

http://michelf.com/weblog/2005/bad-uses-of-the-at-operator/

bretticus

JamesBrauman;10883400 wrote:
If I have:
$currentquery = @mysql_query("Blah blah");
What does the '@' symbol in front of the function name do?

Thanks.

It suppresses any errors that might occur. For example, with @, the sql query may be malformed. PHP would not return that error. AS a rule of thumb, never use these unless you know you can recover from an expected error.

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