[TYPO3-core] RFC: another enhancement to the DB connect method and error display in the FE

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>> Personally I don't like the get_lats_whatever() approach not very 
>> much. I'm much more in favour of a return object/array style where the 
>> results and status code etc are in properties. Of course this can't be 
>> done here  because of compatibiliyt. Which is the *only* reason the 
>> parameter is optional.
> 
> That getLastError() approach has another big plus. Currently there is no 
> way to get error message in t3lib_db. There is a method sql_error but 
> this is not truly the same and it does not provide error code for 
> possible analysis and recovery.

I'm not convinced yet, but maybe you can find the time and make a 
preliminary patch that implements the lastError thingy in a couple of 
places.

> And actually, wouldn't TYPO3_DB->sql_error() return this error message 
> if connection fails?

No, it doesn't. The Mysql lib ties the error to the connection. Sadly it 
doesn't tie query errors to the result resource.

Masi