Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/30/07 02:20

Paul Furman wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> Paul Furman wrote:
>>
>>> How do I turn off MySQL error reporting? I set error_reporting(0);
>>> but that doesn't seem to be working.
>>
>> That turns off PHP error reporting.
>>
>> What problem are you having?
>
> Sorry for the slow reply. Any SQL error appears on the screen, and
> sometimes that includes info I don't want included. Hmm, now that I
> think of it that may be a built in error reporting system (I didn't
> write all of this system). In any case is this a risk and is there a way
> of turning it off? The worst case I recall was something like:
>
> ERROR: unable to connect to the sever using user 'admin' and password
> 'mysectretpassword'
>
> Ha ha, I made that up as I don't recall that one but I don't want
> anything like that to happen again!

Preface the mysql_connect() call with an '@' character, i.e.

@mysql_connect(....);

This suppresses any error message for this function. Just be sure to
check the response.

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