Question

This may be rather noobish but I’m gonna ask anyhow. I have a class that inserts into my database. After the insert is finished, I would like to be able to test whether the insert was successful. Can someone tell me what a good way to do this may be?

I call the class like this:

foo = new Myclass('my params');

print_r($foo) returns an object. Again, all I am interested in is testing whether the insert was successful or not.

Answer 1

From https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-db-query.php

 mysql_db_query() selects a database, and executes a query on it. 

Returns a positive MySQL result resource to the query result, or FALSE on error. The function also returns TRUE/FALSE for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE queries to indicate success/failure.

So you can have MyClass set an error flag in the constructor, as the return value from mysql_db_query() you then check for in your code..

foo = new Myclass('my params');

if (foo->error) {
 // error occured
} else {
 // all is good
}

hope this helps!