# odbc_errormsg

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5, PHP 7)

odbc_errormsg — Get the last error message

### Description

odbc_errormsg ([ resource `$connection_id` ] ) : string

Returns a string containing the last ODBC error message, or an empty string if there has been no errors.

### Parameters

`connection_id`

  The ODBC connection identifier, see odbc_connect() for details.

### Return Values

If `connection_id` is specified, the last state of that connection is returned, else the last state of any connection is returned.

This function returns meaningful value only if last odbc query failed (i.e. odbc_exec() returned `FALSE`).

### See Also

- odbc_error() - Get the last error code
- odbc_exec() - Directly execute an SQL statement