From: Operating system: Ubuntu 9.10 PHP version: 5.3.2 Package: PDO related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:PDO constructor returns null instead of throwing an exception
Description: ------------ Calling 'new PDO(...)' returns null instead of raising an exception. This behaviour was found, while trying to create a PDO object using an sqlite database. The database was created using the command 'sqlite3' from the console. Attempting to open it from PHP using an 'sqlite2' dsn did not raised any exception, but returned null from the object constructor. I do not know if this happens with other PDO drivers, but in any case constructors SHOULD throw an Exception on error, and not NULL. A similar bug has been reported (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49320) but since there is at least another case (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52042) in which a constructor returns NULL when it should be throwing an Exception, I decided to report this anyway. I'm not sure if this goes beyond PDO, and it's a PHP feature that I've never experienced before, but this type of code makes no sense at all, $o = new SomeObject(); if($o === null) { // handle error ... } else { $o->doSomething(); } This is what is expected from OOP: try { $o = new SomeObject(); $o->doSomething(); } catch(Exception $x) { // handle error ... } Test script: --------------- >From the console: $ sqlite3 sqlite.db sqlite> CREATE TABLE T(K VARCHAR(32)); sqlite> .q >From a PHP script: $pdo = new PDO('sqlite2:sqlite.db'); echo 'PDO is ', gettype($pdo), PHP_EOL; Expected result: ---------------- PDO is object Actual result: -------------- PDO is NULL -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52053&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52053&r=mysqlcfg
