# MessageFormatter::getErrorMessage

# msgfmt_get_error_message

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)

MessageFormatter::getErrorMessage -- msgfmt_get_error_message — Get the error text from the last operation

### Description

Object oriented style

public MessageFormatter::getErrorMessage ( ) : string

Procedural style

msgfmt_get_error_message ( MessageFormatter `$fmt` ) : string

Get the error text from the last operation.

### Parameters

`fmt`

  The message formatter

### Return Values

Description of the last error.

### Examples

Example #1 msgfmt_get_error_message() example

`<?php
$fmt = msgfmt_create("en_US", "{0, number} monkeys on {1, number} trees");
$str = msgfmt_format($fmt, array());
if(!$str) {
echo "ERROR: ".msgfmt_get_error_message($fmt) . " (" . msgfmt_get_error_code($fmt) . ")\n";
}
?>`

Example #2 OO example

`<?php
$fmt = new MessageFormatter("en_US", "{0, number} monkeys on {1, number} trees");
$str = $fmt->format(array());
if(!$str) {
echo "ERROR: ".$fmt->getErrorMessage() . " (" . $fmt->getErrorCode() . ")\n";
}
?>`

The above example will output:

    ERROR: msgfmt_format: not enough parameters: U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR (1)

### See Also

- msgfmt_get_error_code() - Get the error code from last operation
- intl_get_error_code() - Get the last error code
- intl_is_failure() - Check whether the given error code indicates failure