set_error_handler not working in PHP5

[rtcary]

This code is in an include file and works in PHP4, but not in PHP5. To test the code, I try to open a DB that does not exist: in PHP4, the error is caught and is displayed by the errors.php page; in PHP5, the error is just displayed by PHP as text on a blank page. The Error No is 2.

function error_handler($errno, $errstr, $file, $line) {
if ($errno != 8) {
$url = 'http://' . $SERVER[HTTP_HOST] . $SERVER[SCRIPT_NAME];
$url = ereg_replace("/[^{/]+$","",$url)} . '/';
bounce($url, "errors.php", "errno=" . $errno .
"&errstr=" . $errstr .
"&file=" . $file .
"&line=" . $line);
}
}
set_error_handler("error_handler");

Any suggestions are appreciated...

Todd

[rtcary]

What I have learned is with PHP4, the error is caught if set_error_handler() has is set; nothing special needed to be done at the source of the error. However, with PHP5, I have to use try() / catch(). This makes the PHP5 code version dependent. Below, the use of try()/catch() works. I would like to have comments on this to find out if I am doing something incorrect.

PHP5:

function open($dbserver, $user, $password, $database) {
$dbh = new COM("ADODB.Connection");
$dsn = "DRIVER={SQL Server}; SERVER=" . $dbserver . ";UID=" . $user . ";PWD=" . $password . "; DATABASE=" . $database;    
try {    
$dbh->Open($dsn);
  $this->dbh = $dbh;
} catch (Exception $e ){
  trigger_error($e->getMessage());  
}

}

PHP4:

function open($dbserver, $user, $password, $database) {
$dbh = new COM("ADODB.Connection");
$dsn = "DRIVER={SQL Server}; SERVER=" . $dbserver . ";UID=" . $user . ";PWD=" . $password . "; DATABASE=" . $database;
$dbh->Open($dsn);
if (!$dbh) $this->error = $this->dbh->Errors[0];
else $this->dbh = $dbh;

}

[NogDog]

As the exception model was added in PHP5, it makes sense that no PHP4 functions would require it. Should you care to, you can use [man]set_exception_handler/man similarly to how you were using set_error_handler().

[rtcary]

Thanks...just started using it...works fine!!

Todd