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[George Webb]

Hi.  I am calling @mysql_connect(...) with the leading '@' in order
to suppress the error messages.  But then if the connect fails, I
want to capture the exact error string of why the connect failed.
(I.e. send it to the admin, rather than to the user.)

	However, it seems that mysql_error() returns empty
after a failed mysql_connect()!  Is this normal?  Has it always
been this way?  I am using PHP 4.3.2.

	Is the only solution, then, to get rid of the leading '@' and
use the output buffering functions to grab the error message?  That
seems ugly.  Is there another way to re-route the error message after
mysql_connect()?

	Thanks!


Sincerely, George.

George Webb
gw.nyphp at gwprogramming.com