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PHP Integrating PHP with Databases Databases and PHP Handling Exceptions

Attila Balog
Attila Balog
5,217 Points
Posted by Attila Balog
Attila Balog
5,217 Points

Connection successfully.(every time)

$db = new PDO("sqlite:".DIR."/database.db"); may be i don't understand, but my thinking is: with this command we create a new DB and after that we connect to it. So you won't get any error messages because you connect to the newly created DB, and every time when you change the name of the DB (as i did) $db = new PDO("sqlite:".DIR."/databaseeeee.db"); $db = new PDO("sqlite:".DIR."/databasexxxx.db"); you create a new one and you connect to that one.(check it in your inc folder, all these db-s appears there) If i wrong please let me know. Thank you.

Joy Manuel
Joy Manuel
6,464 Points

The same thing is happening to me. So how do we get the try/catch block to display output "Unable to connect"?

2 Answers

Dion Dermott
Dion Dermott
15,875 Points
Dion Dermott
Dion Dermott
15,875 Points

Thanks, I was wondering why I wasn't getting an error/exception!

Riki Tiilikainen
Riki Tiilikainen
4,042 Points
Riki Tiilikainen
Riki Tiilikainen
4,042 Points

When I test it locally and break the connection, the same thing happens. Keeps creating new databases. Any idea why?