or die and then continue

[Anon]

Hi,

Is it possible when some proces dies,
it continues(with printing the error?)

Thanks,

jeroen

[kparker]

What exactly do you mean by 'die'? If the process has died, then it can't do anything no matter what because it's not there any more.

If you're talking about die(), you can't use it without stopping the script, but you can echo whatever you want:

$result = mysql_query( $sql ) or die("Can't continue: " . mysql_error());

vs

$result = mysql_query( $sql );
if ( ! $result )
  {
  echo "Query failed: " . mysql_error();
  }
else
  {
  while ($data = mysql_fetch_object($result))
    {
    ...
    }
  }

echo "more stuff goes here...";

[Anon]

That's what I mean.
Are you sure I can't continue after the error?

Thanks,

Jeroen

[kparker]

I'm not doing a very good job of explaining myself. Yes, you can continue executing after you get an error from mysql, but not if you use the die() function.