[TYPO3-dev] Fail-safe mechanism for database connectivity problem

[Dan Frost]

True - the only reason I mentioned set_error_handler is that it ensure
you avoid displaying anything "not pretty" to the public viewing your
website.

dan

Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Dan Frost wrote:
>> True for the exceptions - but you can catch the nasty looking DB errors
>> with set_error_handler() in PHP4. This is sufficient to hide all
>> problems that might happen (apart from Syntax errors and run-time object
>> errors).
> 
> But why do we need to use set_error_handler() for database errors? They
> are perfectly detectable without it.
> 


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Dan Frost
Technical Director
3rd Eye Vision - 3ev.com