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<h1 class="refname">odbc_errormsg</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">odbc_errormsg</span> — <span class="dc-title">Get the last error message</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>odbc_errormsg</strong></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$connection_id</code></span>
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Returns a string containing the last ODBC error message, or an empty
string if there has been no errors.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">connection_id</code></em></span>
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<p class="para">The ODBC connection identifier,
see <span class="function"><a href="function.odbc-connect.html" class="function">odbc_connect()</a></span> for details.</p>
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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If <em><code class="parameter">connection_id</code></em> is specified, the last state
of that connection is returned, else the last state of any connection
is returned.
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This function returns meaningful value only if last odbc query failed
(i.e. <span class="function"><a href="function.odbc-exec.html" class="function">odbc_exec()</a></span> returned <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>).
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.odbc-error.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">odbc_error()</a> - Get the last error code</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.odbc-exec.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">odbc_exec()</a> - Prepare and execute an SQL statement</span></li>
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