> And I have one more question, what is the meaning of 'or'?
> e.g.
> $db=mysql_connect("localhost","root","password") or die ("could not
> connect");
One more thing, which is important to me as a newbie (as I most certainly
am), you can make a custom error message for the die error; which is
important to me seeing as it happens a lot ;)
if you want to see what the error is (for use with MySQL), use
or die (mysql_error());
or use a message which will display nicely to users, if you're re-writing
something which is already online and in use (not recommended).
$error = "<html>\n<head>\n<title>We encountered an
error!</title>\n</head>\n\n";
$error .= "<body bgcolor=\"hex value\" text=\"hex value\">\n";
$error .= "We encountered an error! Please go back to our <a
href=\"http://www.site.com\">site</a>!\n\n";
$error .= "</body>\n";
$error .= "</html>";
Then, you would use something like:
$connection = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password")
or die ($error);
If this is blatantly obvious to you, please ignore it, but at one time not
too long ago, it was helpful to me. There's probably a lot neater way of
doing things too ;)
James.
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