openssl_error_string

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6)

openssl_error_string -- Return openSSL error message

Description

mixed openssl_error_string ()

Warning

This function is EXPERIMENTAL. That means, that the behaviour of this function, this function name, in concreto ANYTHING documented here can change in a future release of PHP WITHOUT NOTICE. Be warned, and use this function at your own risk.

Returns an error message string, or FALSE if there are no more error messages to return.

openssl_error_string() returns the last error from the openSSL library. Error messages are stacked, so this function should be called multiple times to collect all of the information.

The parameters/return type of this function may change before it appears in a release version of PHP

Example 1. openssl_error_string() example


// lets assume you just called an openssl function that failed
while($msg = openssl_error_string)
    echo $msg . "<br>";
      

Note: This function was added in 4.0.6.