Returns a string description of the last error (original) (raw)

mysqli::$error

mysqli_error

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

mysqli::$error -- mysqli_error — Returns a string description of the last error

Description

Object oriented style

stringmysqli->error;

Procedural style

mysqli_error ( mysqli $link ) : string

Return Values

A string that describes the error. An empty string if no error occurred.

Examples

Example #1 $mysqli->error example

Object oriented style

`<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");/* check connection */
if ($mysqli->connect_errno) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", $mysqli->connect_error);
exit();
}

if (!

$mysqli->query("SET a=1")) {
printf("Error message: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
}/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?> `

Procedural style

`<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}

if (!

mysqli_query($link, "SET a=1")) {
printf("Error message: %s\n", mysqli_error($link));
}/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?> `

The above examples will output:

Error message: Unknown system variable 'a'

See Also

• mysqli_connect_errno() - Returns the error code from last connect call
• mysqli_connect_error() - Returns a string description of the last connect error
• mysqli_errno() - Returns the error code for the most recent function call
• mysqli_sqlstate() - Returns the SQLSTATE error from previous MySQL operation