mysqli::$error
mysqli_error

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

mysqli::$error -- mysqli_error — Returns a string description of the last error



Description

Object-oriented style
string $mysqli->error;

Procedural style
mysqli_error(mysqli $mysql): string

Returns the last error message for the most recent MySQLi function call that can succeed or fail.



Parameters

mysql

    Procedural style only: A mysqli object returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init() 



Return Values

A string that describes the error. An empty string if no error occurred.



Examples



Example #1 $mysqli->error example

Object-oriented style
connect_errno ) 
{
    printf( "Connect failed: %s\n", $mysqli->connect_error );
    exit();
}

if( !$mysqli->query( "SET a=1" ) ) 
{
    printf("Error message: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
}

// close connection
$mysqli->close();
?>

Procedural style


The above examples will output:

Error message: Unknown system variable 'a'



See Also

mysqli_connect_errno() - Returns the error code from last connect call
mysqli_connect_error() - Returns a description of the last connection error
mysqli_errno() - Returns the error code for the most recent function call
mysqli_sqlstate() - Returns the SQLSTATE error from previous MySQL operation




User Contributed Notes 7 notes



information at saunderswebsolutions dot com 17 years ago
The mysqli_sql_exception class is not available to PHP 5.05

I used this code to catch errors
query($query);

if( !$res) {
   printf("Errormessage: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
}

?>
The problem with this is that valid values for $res are: a mysqli_result object , true or false
This doesn't tell us that there has been an error with the sql used.
If you pass an update statement, false is a valid result if the update fails.

So, a better way is:
query($query);

if( !$mysqli->error) {
   printf("Errormessage: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
}

?>

This would output something like:
Unexpected PHP error [mysqli::query() [function.query]: (42S22/1054): Unknown column 'XXname' in 'field list'] severity [E_WARNING] in [G:\database.php] line [249]

Very frustrating as I wanted to also catch the sql error and print out the stack trace.

A better way is:

query($query);

if( $mysqli->error) {
    try {    
        throw new Exception("MySQL error $mysqli->error 
 Query:
 $query", $msqli->errno);    
    } catch(Exception $e ) {
        echo "Error No: ".$e->getCode(). " - ". $e->getMessage() . "
";
        echo nl2br($e->getTraceAsString());
    }
}

//Do stuff with the result
?>
Prints out something like:
Error No: 1054
Unknown column 'XXname' in 'field list'
Query:
SELECT XXname FROM customer_table

#0 G:\\database.php(251): database->dbError('Unknown column ...', 1054, 'getQuery()', 'SELECT XXname F...')
#1 G:\data\WorkSites\1framework5\tests\dbtest.php(29): database->getString('SELECT XXname F...')
#2 c:\PHP\includes\simpletest\runner.php(58): testOfDB->testGetVal()
#3 c:\PHP\includes\simpletest\runner.php(96): SimpleInvoker->invoke('testGetVal')
#4 c:\PHP\includes\simpletest\runner.php(125): SimpleInvokerDecorator->invoke('testGetVal')
#5 c:\PHP\includes\simpletest\runner.php(183): SimpleErrorTrappingInvoker->invoke('testGetVal')
#6 c:\PHP\includes\simpletest\simple_test.php(90): SimpleRunner->run()
#7 c:\PHP\includes\simpletest\simple_test.php(498): SimpleTestCase->run(Object(HtmlReporter))
#8 c:\PHP\includes\simpletest\simple_test.php(500): GroupTest->run(Object(HtmlReporter))
#9 G:\all_tests.php(16): GroupTest->run(Object(HtmlReporter))

This will actually print out the error, a stack trace and the offending sql statement. Much more helpful when the sql statement is generated somewhere else in the code.
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se (at) brainbits (dot) net ¶
17 years ago
The decription "mysqli_error -- Returns a string description of the LAST error" is not exactly that what you get from mysqli_error. You get the error description from the last mysqli-function, not from the last mysql-error.

If you have the following situation

if( !$mysqli->query("SET a=1")) {
   $mysqli->query("ROLLBACK;")
   printf("Errormessage: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
}

you don't get an error-message, if the ROLLBACK-Query didn't failed, too. In order to get the right error-message you have to write:

if( !$mysqli->query("SET a=1")) {
   printf("Errormessage: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
   $mysqli->query("ROLLBACK;")
}
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callforeach at gmail dot com ¶
8 years ago
I had to set mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ALL) at the begin of my script to be able to catch mysqli errors within the catch block of my php code.

Initially, I used the below code to throw and subsequent catch mysqli exceptions

connect_errno) 
        throw new Exception($mysqli->connect_error);

} catch (Exception $e) {
     echo $e->getMessage();
}

I realized the exception was being thrown before the actual throw statement and hence the catch block was not being called.

My current code looks like
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ALL) ;
try {
      $mysqli = new mysqli('localhost','root','pwd','db');
      /* I don't need to throw the exception, it's being thrown automatically */

} catch (Exception $e) {
  echo $e->getMessage();
}

This works fine and I'm able to trap all mysqli errors
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abderrahmanekaddour dot aissat at gmail dot com ¶
8 months ago
query("SELECT")){
  $timestamp = new DateTime();
  $data_err = " {
     \"title\": \" Select statement error \",
     \"date_time\": ".$timestamp->getTimestamp().",
     \"error\":\" ".$db->error." \"
     } "; // Do more information 
  fwrite($myfile, $data_err); // writing data
}
    // In separate file do file read and format it for good visual.

$db->close();  
fclose($myfile);
?>
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asmith16 at littlesvr dot ca ¶
9 years ago
Please note that the string returned may contain data initially provided by the user, possibly making your code vulnerable to XSS.

So even if you escape everything in your SQL query using mysqli_real_escape_string(), make sure that if you plan to display the string returned by mysqli_error() you run that string through htmlspecialchars().

As far as I can tell the two escape functions don't escape the same characters, which is why you need both (the first for SQL and the second for HTML/JS).
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information at saunderswebsolutions dot com ¶
17 years ago
Hi, you can also use the new mysqli_sql_exception to catch sql errors.
Example:
query($Select);
}catch (mysqli_sql_exception $e) {
    print "Error Code 
".$e->getCode();
    print "Error Message 
".$e->getMessage();
    print "Strack Trace 
".nl2br($e->getTraceAsString());
}

?>
Will print out something like
Error Code: 0
Error Message
No index used in query/prepared statement select sess_value from frame_sessions where sess_name = '5b85upjqkitjsostvs6g9rkul1'
Strack Trace:
#0 G:\classfiles\lib5\database.php(214): mysqli->query('select sess_val...')
#1 G:\classfiles\lib5\Session.php(52): database->getString('select sess_val...')
#2 [internal function]: sess_read('5b85upjqkitjsos...')
#3 G:\classfiles\includes.php(50): session_start()
#4 G:\tests\all_tests.php(4): include('G:\data\WorkSit...')
#5 {main}
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Anonymous ¶
3 years ago
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
try {
                $this->connection = mysqli_connect($hostname,$username,$password, $dbname);
} catch (Exception $e) {
                echo "Errno: " . mysqli_connect_errno() . PHP_EOL;
                echo "Text error: " . mysqli_connect_error() . PHP_EOL;
                exit;
}