<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >yp_err_string</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="YP/NIS Functions" HREF="ref.nis.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="yp_cat" HREF="function.yp-cat.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="yp_errno" HREF="function.yp-errno.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.yp-cat.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.yp-errno.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.yp-err-string" ></A >yp_err_string</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN98358" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.6)</P >yp_err_string -- Returns the error string associated with the previous operation </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN98361" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >yp_err_string</B > ( void)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >yp_err_string()</B > returns the error message associated with the previous operation. Useful to indicate what exactly went wrong. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN98370" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Example for NIS errors</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php echo "Error: " . yp_err_string(); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.yp-errno.html" ><B CLASS="function" >yp_errno()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.yp-cat.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.yp-errno.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >yp_cat</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.nis.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >yp_errno</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >