[SOLVED] OOP using php defined functions

[Lodius2000]

In a method, are functions defined by php preceded by a @

I'm looking into the guts of a DBabstraction and seeing this

 

<?php
function simpleQuery($query)
    {
        $this->last_query = $query;
        $query = $this->modifyQuery($query);
//next line is what i'm talking about
        $result = @msql_query($query, $this->connection);
        if (!$result) {
            return $this->msqlRaiseError();
        }
        // Determine which queries that should return data, and which
        // should return an error code only.
        if ($this->_checkManip($query)) {
            $this->_result = $result;
            return DB_OK;
        } else {
            $this->_result = false;
            return $result;
        }
    }

?>

 

but then in the same document, I see this

 

<?php
function freeResult($result)
    {
        return is_resource($result) ? msql_free_result($result) : false;
    }
?>

 

now I know mysql_query and msql_free_result to be functions included in mysql enabled installs of php, so whats the diff of using the @ and not?

[Prismatic]

@ suppresses errors generated by a function

[corbin]

"now I know mysql_query and msql_free_result to be functions included in mysql enabled installs of php, so whats the diff of using the @ and not? "

 

mSQL != MySQL.

[Lodius2000]

corbin... yeah saw that I had opened the wrong document, I had opened the msql not mysql, but i checked out what was in the mysql and it had the same sorts of things

 

Prismatic... that explains it because this DBA has its own error reporting

 

SOLVED

[corbin]

If you're super concerned about speed, I've heard that error suppressing can cause some major slow downs in function calls.  Never tested it my self or anything though.