Even though developers (most at least) strive for an application free of bugs, no application (except minor projects) can be expected to be completely bug-free. For that purpose, a good practice for programmers is to build in code that will trap and display errors in a way that is both meaningful and useful to assist in the correction of the error. PHP offers two functions that can display error messages from MySQL: • mysql_error() - This function displays the error message (if there was one) from the last MySQL function. The language that the message will be displayed in is based on the target language that is setup in the MySQL server. However, even if a fluent speaker of the message language were to read the majority of error messages returned, they would most likely still have a difficult time understanding what was said. Needless to say, error messages from MySQL are not very verbose or informative. <?php // Load variables used in mysql_connect and connect to serv
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