'OR DIE'

[drucifer]

Ok,

When connecting with a mysql database, on a failure, is there any way of making my PHP script just print the 'or die' statement without it publicly displaying the PHP/Mysql connection error as well. Or any other simple alternatives for a simple authentication system?

[[deleted]]

OR DIE is a very crude method.

Teach yourself to stop using it.
Instead, use an intelligent method as described here:

http://www.hvt-automation.nl/yapf/index.php#4

[drucifer]

Ok, you got me hred-handed. The 'Or Die' method was indeed crude, but for some reason I didn't think I could just use the 'if' and 'else' statements, not sure why I thought that.

Anyway, cheers for the link, helped me out loads.

[Anon]

Vincent: I like what you're saying, and your example is very good, except I don't completely agree with what you say about '@'. Namely, if you're going to print mysql_error() anyway, you aren't loosing track of the error, so you can safely use '@' to suppress the automatic error message. This can be especially useful if you're in a middle of a table and the automatic error message will disappear into a cell where you don't want it.

Also, it looks like YAPF is on a new site--is the old one going away?

[[deleted]]

"Namely, if you're going to print mysql_error() anyway, you aren't loosing track of the error, so you can safely use '@' to suppress the automatic error message."

Yes and no.
Yes because what you say is true if the error-reporting is complete.

No because using the @ sign quickly turns into a habit, and especially during development you need all the error-mesages you can get because your error-checking will not be fullproof untill you have seen all the messages you can see.

New site: Yes I think it will move to the new location because the old one does not support PHP and the new one does! 🙂

PS: Do you have anything to add to yapf! yet? 🙂

[Anon]

I have a few things I'd like to do, but we are so hammered these days, I haven't had time to write them up coherently.

[[deleted]]

Same here mate, tons of ideas, no time... 🙁