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<h1 class="refname">yp_err_string</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5 <= 5.0.5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">yp_err_string</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns the error string associated with the given error code</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>yp_err_string</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$errorcode</code></span>
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Returns the error message associated with the given error code.
Useful to indicate what exactly went wrong.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">errorcode</code></em></span>
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The error code.
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Returns the error message, as a string.
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<p><strong>Example #1 Example for NIS errors</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Error: " </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">yp_err_string</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">yp_errno</span><span style="color: #007700">());<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.yp-errno.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">yp_errno()</a> - Returns the error code of the previous operation</span></li>
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