Started learning PHP and after learning the basic stuff, which was easy because I learn C++ at school and most of the stuff is similar, I started with mysql. Everything works fine, but I can't get to work the connect_errno
working.
Copied and pasted this http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.connect-errno.php into my code with no success.
My few lines of code:
<?php
error_reporting(0);
$db = mysqli_connect('127.0.0.1' , 'root' , '' , 'mydb');
if ($db->connect_errno) {
die('Connect Error: ' . $db->connect_errno);
}
?>
I've also tried an example from a tutorial, no success.
EDIT: ANSWER IS BELOW!
You mixed the Object-oriented approach and the Procedural approach. Below is the example for the OO approach.
$db = new mysqli('127.0.0.1' , 'root' , '' , 'mydb');
if ( $db->connect_errno ) {
die('Connect Error: ' . $db->connect_errno);
}
error_reporting( 0 );
will suppress errors, so if you're in a debugging workflow and need to see those errors, you'll need to update the error reporting directive to error_reporting( E_ALL );
.
Also, I updated the db name to mydb
as reflected in the code (I switched that out on my local machine to experiment with connections/errors).
You're using a mix of OO and procedural code. mysql_connect does not return an object; it returns a db handle. You can get its error number using the following:
$db = mysqli_connect('127.0.0.1' , 'root' , '' , 'mydb');
$err = mysqli_connect_errno();