PDO::inTransaction

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.3, Bundled pdo_pgsql, PHP 7, PHP 8)

PDO::inTransaction Checks if inside a transaction

Description

public PDO::inTransaction(): bool

Checks if a transaction is currently active within the driver. This method only works for database drivers that support transactions.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns true if a transaction is currently active, and false if not.

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jlh
4 years ago
Important note: This will only detect whether a transaction has been started using beginTransaction(). It will not be able to detect transactions started by any other means, for example by executing "START TRANSACTION".
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dennis
2 years ago
At least for MySQL/MariaDB, inTransaction shows the real state of the transaction since 8.0
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unger at mirea dot ru
8 months ago
With respect to SQLite, this method does not always return the correct result. This applies to errors including SQLITE_FULL, SQLITE_IOERR, SQLITE_NOMEM, SQLITE_BUSY, and SQLITE_INTERRUPT. According to the documentation, these errors can cause an automatic rollback. The method does not take this into account (because it uses PDO's internal tracking mechanism).
However, SQLite has a way to find out whether the transaction was automatically rolled back or not. By using sqlite3_get_autocommit() C-language function.
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Anonymous
4 years ago
In addition to what jlh says,
even with SQLite3 which automatically starts transaction,
inTransaction() only works after beginTransaction().

<?php
try{

$pdo = new PDO('sqlite:test.sql3', null, null, [PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION]);
var_dump($pdo->inTransaction());echo "<br>"; // bool(false) : before beginTransaction()
$pdo->beginTransaction();
var_dump($pdo->inTransaction());echo "<br>"; // bool(true) : after beginTransaction()
$pdo->rollBack();
var_dump($pdo->inTransaction());echo "<br>"; // bool(false) : after commit() or rollBack()

}catch (PDOException $e){

echo
'PDOException: ' . $e->getMessage();

}catch (
Exception | ErrorException $e){

var_dump($e);

}
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