Error info from xPDO

Whats the best/preferred way of getting error info strings back from xPDO. I’m looking for an equivalent of the MYSQL function ’mysql_error’ so I can feed this back to the GUI. A bit of context, I’m calling the save() function on an element(template actually) that’s failing, the fail is ’template with that name already exists’ i.e. duplicate, this is OK, I just want to tell the user.

• Set the $xpdo->logTarget to an array reference (new feature), e.g.

<?php
$errors = array ();
$xpdo->setLogTarget(array(
    'target' => 'ARRAY'
    ,'options' => array('var' => & $errors)
));
?>

• Set the $xpdo->logTarget to a file or db register and you can read the errors across requests (this is what package installation does in MODx)
• Check $xpdo->errorInfo() or $xpdo->errorCode(), which should contain information about the most recent error encountered by a PDOStatement or PDO itself.

if ($element->save() == false) {
                $errorText = $element->xpdo->errorInfo();
                $errorstring =  $errorText[0];
                $errorstring .= " : " . $errorText[1];
                $errorstring .= " : " . $errorText[2];

PDO::errorInfo() only retrieves error information for operations performed directly on the database handle. If you create a PDOStatement object through PDO::prepare() or PDO::query() and invoke an error on the statement handle, PDO::errorInfo() will not reflect the error from the statement handle. You must call PDOStatement::errorInfo() to return the error information for an operation performed on a particular statement handle.

Ok, using this snippet of code :-

if ($element->save() == false) {
                $errorText = $element->xpdo->errorInfo();
                $errorstring =  $errorText[0];
                $errorstring .= " : " . $errorText[1];
                $errorstring .= " : " . $errorText[2];

I get this output ’00000 : : ’, this may be because of this from PHP :-

PDO::errorInfo() only retrieves error information for operations performed directly on the database handle. If you create a PDOStatement object through PDO::prepare() or PDO::query() and invoke an error on the statement handle, PDO::errorInfo() will not reflect the error from the statement handle. You must call PDOStatement::errorInfo() to return the error information for an operation performed on a particular statement handle.

If so I’ll file a bug, it would be handy to be able to do this.