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PHP Integrating PHP with Databases Querying the Database with PHP Querying the Database

Volodymyr Danileichenko
Volodymyr Danileichenko
7,354 Points
Posted by Volodymyr Danileichenko
Volodymyr Danileichenko
7,354 Points

query() method issue

I'm using MySQL and the try/catch construction from the video doesn't work. $db -> query() method returns boolean. So the code is executed in any case. It just returns "false" in case of an error. Is it a correct behaviour or am I doing something wrong? Thanks

Simon Woodard
Simon Woodard
6,545 Points
Simon Woodard
Simon Woodard
6,545 Points

Perhaps you could post the code you've written so we have a better idea of the issue.

2 Answers

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

Does the code you include to get a connection include

$pdoObj->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

? I think Alena said that you had to tell it to throw exceptions.

Alex Roberts
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Alex Roberts
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 255 Points
Alex Roberts
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Alex Roberts
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 255 Points

try wrapping the Media word in these ``

Like this -

try { $db->query("SELECT title, category FROM Media"); } catch (Exception $e) { echo "Bad query"; }