If the box is down, then the information just won't be diplayed or I'll display some sort of message saying it's down instead. So catching the error and ignoring it would be what I'm trying to do. What does the '@' in @mysql_connect() do? -Josh > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of David Phillips > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:36 AM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] mysql_connect with php > > > Josh Close writes: > > I guess I'm looking for something more like a try/catch where if > > there's an error, nothing will be displayed and the script will keep > > on going. > > Exceptions don't work like that. They aren't used to ignore > errors, but to > handle them all in one place. With things like database > calls, it is just > as easy (if not easier) to simply use wrapper functions that > handle all > errors. > > Ignoring errors doesn't work well either. Suppose you have a > page that > retreives a list of names from the database and displays them. If you > simply ignore MySQL errors and manage to still make > everything work, you get > an empty table. Is that really what you want? In most cases handling > errors as they occur is the best solution. > > If you want an easy, "modern" object oriented language that supports > exceptions, try Python. > > Personally, I dislike exceptions for most things. They are > nice because > they guarantee that all errors will be caught (assuming you don't do > something stupid like a blanket catch). They suck because in > many cases you > need to handle errors individually as they occur. Thus > exceptions end up > being a lot more code without providing anything useful. > > -- > David Phillips <david at acz.org> > http://david.acz.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list