From: dan at novapulsar dot com
Operating system: centos4.3
PHP version: 4.4.7
PHP Bug Type: MySQL related
Bug description: mysql_error doesn't return a string, just dumps output to
screen
Description:
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Since mysql_error() is documented to 'return' a string, I assumed it would
be safe to put it in either a string, or as an argument to an error
handling function.
Reproduce code:
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function fn_Save_Error ($x_page_url, $x_error) {
if (strlen($x_page_url) && strlen($x_error)) {
//output if debugging is on
echo ("Error on page: " . $x_page_url . " -> " . $x_error);
//save to db
}
}
$strSQL = "select all from something will make an error duh";
$objResult = mysql_query ($strSQL) or die (fn_Save_Error('this.php',
mysql_error());
Expected result:
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Expected result is that the string value of mysql_error() is passed as an
argument of datatype string whether blank or with contents to the
fn_Save_Error function.
Actual result:
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Mysql_error() is output directly to the screen/console, instead of being
passed as a value to fn_Save_Error for custom error handling.
Based on the mysql_error() documentation it should not output the error to
screen, it should return it as a string, so that I could do this:
...some wrong query execution...
$error_message = mysql_error(); echo ($error_message);
$error_message should be == to $mysql_error, but instead it just outputs
to screen/console
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Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41910&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41910&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41910&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41910&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41910&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41910&r=php3
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Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41910&r=float
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