…The web service needs to connect to the database, only if the…series of checks that we've just created hasn't generated an error message.…So at the bottom of the script in podata.php,…add a conditional statement that's checking for no error.…So let's just scroll down a bit.…And we're going down, add that conditional statement, if no error.…The error variable was initialized to null, right…at the beginning of the script, so it will…only equate to true if an error has been added to it by this series of checks here.…
If there are no errors, we can connect to the database.…We'll use PDO, so we need a try, catch block.…And inside the catch block, we need to catch any messages…from the exception but we want to keep those to ourself.…We'll have a separate one that is more…generalized, which will go for the web service.…So, exception and, then a more general one.…This is for our web service, so it's as an array.…And now inside the try block, we can connect to the database.…Store the database connection as DB.…
It'll be a new PDO.…
Author
David Powers
Updated
12/16/2014Released
7/15/2014David introduces challenges and provides an overview of his solutions in PHP. Challenges include topics such as statistical analysis, searching directories for images, and accessing peripheral devices.
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Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 14s
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Using the exercise files1m 56s
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Problem One: Statistical Analysis
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Overview of my solution3m 22s
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Setting up the database4m 55s
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Processing the full-year records10m 49s
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Processing individual days6m 54s
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Keeping the data up to date4m 27s
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Creating a web service6m 21s
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Getting the required data6m 50s
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Problem Two: Image Analysis
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Identify the image subset3m 14s
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Overview of my solution3m 19s
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Setting up the files2m 43s
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Generating the thumbnails7m 49s
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Finding the cropped images7m 13s
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Problem Three: Eight Queens
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Overview of my solution3m 48s
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Rotating the chessboard4m 59s
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Problem Four: Accessing Peripherals
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Overview of my solution2m 1s
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Using the Web Audio API2m 47s
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Creating the tone generator7m 39s
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Problem Five: Recursion and Directories
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Overview of my solution3m 24s
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Finding the images5m 30s
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Extracting XMP metadata6m 22s
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Problem Six: Building the Web
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Building the web1m 47s
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Overview of my solution1m 50s
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