Question

I have PHP 5.2.3, apache2.x, MySQL 5.x on a Linux machine. Everything was working fine until yesterday. This morning all of a sudden one of the PHP files started to throw “Fatal error: Call to a member function execute() on a non-object in”. I use PDO (prepare, execute, close cursor etc). Have you ever come across this problem? does someone know a fix for this, please?

Many thanks,
R

Answer 1

As Alan says, the problem is probably that prepare is returning false rather than a PDOStatement. The best way to debug this is to turn warnings on. To do this, put this code right after you initialise PDO:

$db = new PDO();  // insert the following after this line
$db->setAttribute( PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING );

This will mean that a PHP warning will be raised by PDO when the prepare statement fails. This should contain information that will help you debug the problem.