Question

I am trying to get to grips with pdo. I have the below function:

  function get_editusers($db)  
  {    
    $result = $db->query("SELECT firstname, middlename,surname,fullname,gender, birthdate,homelanguage,department,employeetype,employeestatus,idnumber FROM Persons where employeeid='$employeeid'"); 
    return $result; 
  } 
  $useredit = get_editusers($db); 

how do I know if the query ran correctly? if it was not successful I would like a certain action to be performed but not sure how to ‘catch’ the error.

if($useredit="failed"){ action if failed} else { action if true}

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

function get_editusers($db){    
    try {
         $result = $db->query("SELECT firstname, middlename,surname,fullname,gender, birthdate,homelanguage,department,employeetype,employeestatus,idnumber FROM Persons where employeeid='$employeeid'"); 
         return $result; 
    } catch(PDOException $ex) {
         return $ex;
    }
}

$result = get_editusers($db);
if(isset($result->errorInfo)){
    die($result);
}