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Doc Bug #76151 Mention false return value on mysqli_connect failure
Submitted: 2018-03-26 15:16 UTC Modified: 2019-10-13 15:03 UTC
From: phpbugs at personal dot formauri dot es Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: MySQLi related
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: N/A
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2018-03-26 15:16 UTC] phpbugs at personal dot formauri dot es 
Description:
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When mysqli::__construct fails to connect, the return value is boolean false, but this is not mentioned in the documentation.

Affected page: http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.construct.php

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 [2018-03-26 15:49 UTC] danack@php.net 
Please could you provide a reproduce case, just to make adding a test be trivial.


I think this behaviour is a bug since this RFC was passed: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/internal_constructor_behaviour
 [2018-03-26 15:50 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Package: Documentation problem +Package: MySQLi related
 [2018-03-26 15:52 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Summary: Mention false return value on mysqli::__construct failure +Summary: Mention false return value on mysqli_connect failure
 [2018-03-26 15:52 UTC] requinix@php.net 
I believe phpbugs means the mysqli_connect function.
 [2018-03-26 16:46 UTC] phpbugs at personal dot formauri dot es 
Yes, my apologies. I was testing with mysqli_connect() and I believed the manual when it said that it was an alias of mysqli::__construct().

So I guess that mysqli_connect() should have a separate documentation if it handles the return value differently.
 [2018-03-26 18:09 UTC] requinix@php.net 
mysqli_connect and mysqli::__construct are the same thing internally so it is good for them to share documentation. Some other classes are in the same situation too, like DateTime. Including the return value is fine.
 [2019-10-13 15:02 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of cmb
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=348150
Log: Fix #76151: Mention false return value on mysqli_connect failure
 [2019-10-13 15:03 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2019-10-13 15:03 UTC] cmb@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 [2019-10-13 15:05 UTC] salathe@php.net 
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=61c316ed7356d78dc400410e2a83fec78b1e4de9
Log: Fix #76151: Mention false return value on mysqli_connect failure
 [2020-02-07 06:04 UTC] phpdocbot@php.net 
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=2a92e38e4f50aec0f165945bfb2901c7595cef6d
Log: Fix #76151: Mention false return value on mysqli_connect failure
 
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