mgaman

I'm using PHP V7.0 on the physical machine and V8.1 on the virtual machines, so you have hit on the reason. Thanks for the response.

Take , for example, a case of mysqli_connect with incorrect paramaters. On a physical machine it returns FALSE and go you to mysqli_connect_error for details. The same code on a virtual machine throws an exception. Try the following in both environments <?php // fill in your values $link = mysqli_connect($dbhost, $dbusername, $dbpassword,$dbname); if ($link->connect_error) { die('not connected: '.mysqli_connect_error()); } I cannot be the first to trip up on this yet cannot find any discussions/documentation. Any insight anyone?