On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Floyd Resler<fresler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm having a hard time getting my head around this problem. I have to
> connect to a FoxPro database using an ODBC driver. Sometimes when I connect
> I get an error. The error doesn't occur all the time and usually another
> connect attempt works. I can trap the error through an error handler.
> However, I use a class to connect to the database. What I want to do is to
> check for that error and, if it occurs, try to connect again. Since the
> error handler is outside the class, how can I create the object again and
> make sure it gets passed back to my script that called it? I hope that made
> sense!
>
> Thanks!
> Floyd
Why is the error outside the class? If you connect with a class, something like:
public function __construct() {
$this->handle = false;
while($this->handle === false) {
$this->handle == odbc_connect();
}
}
ought to work fine. Alternatively, you could check out PDO, which is
supposed to be the next generation of database connections in PHP, and
won't create an object without a connection.
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