How to handle PDO exceptions [duplicate] - php

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Why does this PDO statement silently fail?
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I'm trying to work with PDO class on php but I have some trouble to find the right way to handle errors, I've wrote this code:
<?php
// $connection alreay created on a class which works with similar UPDATE statements
// I've simply added here trim() and PDO::PARAM... data type
$id = 33;
$name = "Mario Bros.";
$url = "http://nintendo.com";
$country = "jp";
try {
$sql = "UPDATE table_users SET name = :name, url = :url, country = :country WHERE user_id = :user_id";
$statement = $connection->prepare ($sql);
$statement->bindParam (':user_id', trim($id), PDO::PARAM_INT);
$statement->bindParam (':name', trim($name), PDO::PARAM_STR);
$statement->bindParam (':url', trim($url), PDO::PARAM_STR);
$statement->bindParam (':country', trim($country), PDO::PARAM_STR, 2);
$status = $statement->execute ();
} catch (PDOException $e) {
print $e->getMessage ();
}
print $status; // it returns a null value, and no errors are reported
?>
this portion of code doesn't report errors, but it simply doesn't work, the var $status at the bottom, return a null value.
can someone help me to find where I'm wrong?

Answer 1

PDO won't throw exceptions unless you tell it to. Have you run:
$connection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
on the PDO object?

Answer 2

You can add the attribute one time while you connect you mysql.
function connect($dsn, $user, $password){
try {
$dbh = new PDO($dsn, $user, $password, array(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING));
} catch (PDOException $e) {
echo 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
exit;
}
}
Thanks