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PHP Integrating PHP with Databases Databases and PHP Handling Exceptions

try-Catch is not catching exceptions

It is not possible to reproduce what is taught in this video.

try-catch always returns successful connection.

1 Answer

Mike Henry
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Mike Henry
Courses Plus Student 5,373 Points

inside my inc/connection.php file I have a line something like this $db = new PDO("sqlite:".DIR."/database.db"); If I change this to some other database name like $db = new PDO("sqlite:".DIR."/databasexxxx.db"); it will throw an error. -- Unable to connect