PDO catch PDOException fails on construction

Question

I\'ve seen variations of this code all over the place, including many S.O. posts:

class db extends PDO {

    public function __construct( $dbconf ) {
        $o         


        

Answer 1

The reason being is PDO::__construct only creates the object upon successful connection. So when you call the parent constructor and it fails your object doesn't exist anymore. You should use self::myerror() to access the error function statically in this case.