Question

The PHP function oci_connect (which connects to an Oracle database) just returns false if it fails, which at the moment I handle like this:

$connection = oci_connect($username, $password, $database); if (!$connection){     return $result = 'Trouble connecting to the Oracle Database'; } 

But really I’d like to have the actual ORA error code, so I can be more informative. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Have you tried examining the results of oci_error()?

I haven’t used Oracle with PHP (sadly) but the MySQL the general pattern is:

if (!mysql_connect(...)) {   error_log('Error connecting: ' . mysql_error()); // or just die } 

It seems logical that the Oracle pattern would be:

if (!oci_connect(...)) {   error_log('Error connecting: ' . oci_error()); }